The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has joined the International Authors Forum Representing 1,000 Nigerian authors at home and abroad, the association exists to pursue the following aims: To promote …
Australia: (Un)fair dealings from the Productivity Commission Report
(Originally posted on the Australian Society of Authors’ website: 29th April 2016) There is nothing fair about the recommendations in the Productivity Commission’s draft report into Intellectual Property Arrangements, which …
IAF meets authors and members at Salon du Livre, Paris 2016
FUIS, the Italian Writers’ Union and IAF member, invited Katie Webb to represent IAF as its guest at the Salon du Livre, the International Book Fair in Paris. Of the many …
IAF asks Canadian Ministers to remedy damage to authors’ rights and incomes due to educational copyright exceptions
The members of the International Authors Forum (IAF) – 57 organisations representing over 600,000 individual creators worldwide – have written to Government Ministers in Canada. They ask them to take …
IAF represented at WIPO Conference on the Global Digital Content Market
Authors Maureen Duffy (UK) and Dr Federico Polak at WIPO Global Digital Content Market conference April 2016 (Argentina) represented authors at a conference hosted by WIPO in Geneva from April 20th – 22nd …
US: Supreme Court Declines to Review Fair Use Finding in Decade-Long Book Copying Case Against Google
NEW YORK, NY, April 18, 2016 — The Authors Guild expressed its disappointment with today’s U.S. Supreme Court order denying review of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Authors Guild v. …
Self-publishers: helping to change lives and bring work to a wider audience
PRESS RELEASE, LONDON, 12 APRIL 2016 Writers can bring their books to millions more readers with the International Authors Forum’s (IAF) new guide for self-published authors on how to make …
Swedish Supreme Court: Artists’ copyright for outdoor art also applies online
Sweden’s Supreme Court has found in favour of Bildupphovsrätt in an important matter of principle regarding the interpretation of a restriction in the Swedish Copyright Act. The dispute between Bildupphovsrätt …
The Business of Being an Author: IAF’s event in Geneva at the latest SCCR
IAF held an event at the latest Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) held at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva, on 7th December 2015. The …