Category: IP Rights
Planning For The Trump AI Apocalypse Copyright Exemption Executive Order
Rather than mourning the end of copyright protection, publishers should focus on what they do best: understanding audiences, nurturing creative talent, and delivering quality content.
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Anniversary Windfall and Austenmania – Or When Will Publishers Take Public Domain Seriously?
Exploring how publishers profit from public domain content and why proactive innovation is key to sustainable growth beyond anniversaries and media tie-ins.
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Emirates Publishers Association Gains Observer Status at WIPO
The Emirates Publishers Association secures observer status at WIPO, advancing the UAE’s role in shaping global intellectual property and publishing policies.
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The Sarah J. Maas Model: How Authors Are Bypassing Publishers in the IP Gold Rush
How Sarah J. Maas’s IMG deal signals a seismic shift: authors now bypass publishers to control lucrative IP rights, leaving traditional publishing behind.
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BLAPAN’s Inauguration Marks a Turning Point in Nigeria’s IP Protection Arena
A bold step forward in the fight against piracy and the push for stronger protections for literary professionals.
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US Head of Copyright Fired. Just How Close Are We to a Trump Executive Order Declaring Fair Use for AI Companies?
The dismissal of the head of US copyright amid high-profile legal cases and potential executive interventions, rams home the urgent need for a measured, strategic response. Forget the soundbites and the posturing. This is serious.
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Jamaica’s Intellectual Property Week 2025 – A Celebration of Creativity and Copyright in Publishing
For book publishers, copyright is the cornerstone of our business model. It ensures that authors and publishers are fairly compensated – well, compensated, anyway – for their creative efforts, enabling them to continue producing high-quality content.
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PARIX IA: The Largest AI-Related Event for Spanish-Language Publishing Markets. Time To Leave The Luddites In The Dust!
Watching the global AI scene evolve, it’s clear that many publishers and authors in the US, and even more in the UK, blindly fixating on these issues and unable/unwilling to see the bigger picture thanks to a handful of Luddite influencers, stand to be left behind as AI-assisted publishing moves forward without them.
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AI and RROs – we’ll profit more if we move with the times
As the pendulum slowly swings from the knee-jerk AI-is-evil non-think camp to nuanced evaluations of what benefits AI brings to the industry table, Charkin offers a road map to find the road out of Ludditeland.
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Landmark AI copyright ruling in China sets example for world to follow
The Beijing court has done the world a favour. Creatives who wish to use new technology to be even more creative can, in China at least, do so knowing their efforts will have protection.
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If only western countries had this kind of govt. support to fight book piracy!
Many publishing professionals in the “civilised west” regard far-flung parts of the...
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Kay Thompson’s "Eloise" IP sold for film, TV and stage adaptations 65 years after first publication. A reminder of the enduring power of publishing’s backlist
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1955, the Eloise books have sold more than 15 million...
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