Canada’s 10-Year Crisis: ‘This Broken Copyright Framework’

Having spent years in the court system trying to regain copyright revenue for educational content, Canada’s publishers and authors now set their sights on Parliament. Read More

Singapore: StoryDrive Asia 2017

Frankfurter Buchmesse’s StoryDrive Asia conference in Singapore highlighted one of the most promising regions, Southeast Asia’s emerging publishing scene.  Read More

US-Based Copyright Clearance Center Buys the UK's Ixxus

Content management meets rights management in a newly announced acquisition by Copyright Clearance Center of London’s Ixxus, another merger in the changing world of digital publishing. Read More

#IDPFDigiCon Preview: A Few Words With Michael Healy

Content today is ‘born digital, transmitted digitally, used digitally, consumed digitally,’ and a leading player in the field plans his address at IDPF’s conference at BEA to highlight some of the hotspots in a world teeming with copyright issues. Read More

When Copyright Protections Are Weakened: Canada’s Warning for Australia

As Australia reviews the country’s IP arrangements, Copyright Clearance Center’s Roy Kaufman says Canberra needs to heed Ottawa’s warning. Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives. Read More

Monday: Berlin’s ‘Senior’ Publishers’ Forum Convenes In A Digitally Youthful Industry

‘The Most Senior In Continental Europe’ There are, it turns out, myriad ways to structure and calibrate the discussions and debates and conversations that go into a good publishing conference. Rüdiger Wischenbart This year, one of the most interesting contextualizations awaits us in Berlin. There, international publishing specialist and consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart is at the helm… Read More

Publishing For Digital Minds Conference Opens London Book Fair Monday

Setting The Tone In A New Setting Putting together a major publishing conference program is never easy. But putting one together to open one of the year’s leading trade shows is particularly tricky: there are a lot of competing interests, most of them on the commercial side of the industry. And the audience for one… Read More