Access Copyright, Canada’s Reproduction Rights Organization outside Quebec, has recently launched Prescient, its innovation lab. Prescient is dedicated to exploring the future of rights management and content monetization through emerging technologies such as blockchain and AI. They tell us more about their project and where they see risks and opportunities for publishers.
With the Serbian Ministry of Education wanting to bring new technologies into the classroom it collaborated with teachers and publishers to bring blended teaching to the reformed 1st and 5th grade in Serbian primary and lower secondary schools. How did they manage?
Alongside announcing great progress for the ABC Global Book Service with 42,000 additions to the catalogue, IPA VP-elect Bodour Al Qasimi signed an agreement with WIPO for accessibility training in the UAE and IPA President-elect, Hugo Setzer, stars in a short film explaining his support for accessible publishing.
While IPA President Michiel Kolman, Vice-President-elect Bodour Al Qasimi and Secretary General José Borghino led the IPA delegation that attended WIPO’s SCCR in Geneva, President-elect Hugo Setzer and Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee, Kristenn Einarsson, attended the Guadalajara Book Fair.
Friday at SCCR 38 was for “other matters” – copyright in the digital environment, resale right and theatre directors.
Following Wednesday’s jam-packed day of presentations and side-events, you could feel a drop in energy in the chamber today as a number of reports were presented.
