27 Apr 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
Local users and global resources
Digital technologies have changed libraries, access to information, and indeed the world. The information (...)
12 Mar 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
On 11 March 2015, the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights presented her report ‘Copyright Policy and the Right to (...)
19 Jan 2015
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
“Copyright divide in numbers”, the graph on the first page of the newly launched ‘The Copyright Manifesto. How the European Union should Support (...)
19 Dec 2014
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
We really didn’t know what to expect from the last WIPO meeting of 2014. Two previous sessions of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related (...)
23 Oct 2014
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
In many countries, textbooks on particular areas of law such as criminal, constitutional or contract law become classics that are widely regarded (...)
22 Oct 2014
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
In retrospect the clouds hovering above the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva look ominous (see photo for our news item on (...)
08 Sep 2014
Posted by Teresa Hackett, Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), short courses that are delivered online for free, are said to be taking the academic world by storm. Thousands (...)