Are librarians non-playable characters?
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In IFLA’s advocacy work, two recurring phenomena point to a key challenge that we need to overcome.
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Copyright Week: Fair Use protection in recent US Supreme Court cases
This week is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s Copyright Week. Watch IFLA’s Policy and Advocacy blog for posts on the rights libraries and their users have under copyright right law. Recently we shared a post on Monday’s theme, the Public Domain. Today: Fair Use. Fair use triumphs over proprietarianism. Consumers benefit from competition and advances in technology – […]
Read moreCount Libraries In! Transcript of the COP27 Presentation by Dr. Heba Mohamed Ismail (IFLA Regional Division Committee for MENA)
Read the transcript of the presentation given by Heba Mohamed Ismail during two events focussing on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) at COP27
Read moreWIPO SCCR/42: Why broadcast matters
This 9 – 13 May, I attended the 42nd meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related rights (WIPO SCCR/42 for short). For a week, national delegates, expert panels, and observing civil society organisations (CSOs) like IFLA and rightholder groups discussed the impact of COVID-19; the WIPO African regional group’s proposal for a workplan on limitations and exceptions; broadcast rights; and other odds and ends for some 40+ hours’ worth of meetings, coffee breaks, and side discussions.
Read moreLooking Ahead on Copyright in 2022
Even as it has added new complexity to law-making, the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a new light on the way that copyright regimes work, and how well able they are to flex to match an uncertain and changing world. That they need to accommodate digital is clear, but there is still resistance to reproducing the […]
Read moreWorking with the SDGs, Working with Politicians: Interview with the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
Engaging with the UN Sustainable Development Goals opens up possibilities for libraries to create connections with United Nations agencies, while focusing initiatives on the individual topics they cover can help build support for the work of our institutions across governments, among politicians. We talked with Maia Simonishvili, from the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, to […]
Read moreCOVID has forced us to think again about service provision: can it offer longer term lessons for how we serve persons with disabilities?
Tomorrow, the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities starts, in New York and online. It will have, as an overarching theme, ‘building back better: COVID-19 response and recovery; meeting the needs, realizing the rights, and addressing the socio-economic impacts on persons with disabilities’. There’s […]
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