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The CEPIC Congress 2013 Website is Online!

Dec 19. 2012
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The Registration to the CEPIC Congress 2013 is Open

The CEPIC Congress 2013 website is online!

Take advantage of the Early Bird Fee until 03.January.

  • Click here to access to the registration.

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The CEPIC Congress 2013 Website is Online!

Dec 19. 2012
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The Registration to the CEPIC Congress 2013 is Open

The CEPIC Congress 2013 website is online!

Take advantage of the Early Bird Fee until 03.January.

  • Click here to access Registration.

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Registration for CEPIC Congress 2013 Has Started!

Dec 19. 2012
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ByChristina VaughanWe are delighted to confirm that Registration is now open for Congress 2013 which will take place in the wonderful city of Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia, one of the most vibrant regions of Spain, from the 11th – 14th June.

Dear CEPIC Family,

We are delighted to confirm that Registration is now open for Congress 2013 which will take place in the wonderful city of Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia, one of the most vibrant regions of Spain.

Barcelona CEPIC Week will take place in June with the Congress confirmed at the modern World Trade Centre overlooking the Mediterranean from the 11th – 14th June.

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The Granger Collection Wishes you Happy Holidays!

Dec 19. 2012
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The team of The Granger Collection wants to wish you a happy Chiristmas Holiday with a nice postcard.

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A wealth of Award-winnners at Nature Picture Library

Dec 17. 2012
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Nature Picture Library photographers have enjoyed great success this year in the world's leading wildlife and nature photography competitions.

Notably:

• Ingo Arndt won the Fritz Polking portfolio award in the German GDT competition,

• Ole Jorgen Liodden won the Animals in Environment category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition,

• Cheryl-Samantha Owen and Nick Upton won second and third prizes in the Mankind and Nature portfolio section of the French Melvita Nature Awards.

Other commendations and awards came from Nature's Best in the USA, the Lux Awards in Spain and the British Wildlife Photographer Awards. View our gallery of winners here, and contact us if you'd like more information.

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Google and Belgian publishers Come to an Agreement

Dec 14. 2012
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While negotiations between Google and French and German publishers are still underway, French-speaking Belgian press publishers, the societies of authors and Google have announced today a series of agreements which put an end to their legal proceedings.

Through these agreements, the publishers of French-speaking Belgian press will work in partnership with Google to generate business opportunities for online content. The objective is to increase the visits to the websites and the user's participation, as well as to stimulate the revenues generated by the publisher's websites.

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Global IP Filings Continue to Grow, China Tops Global Patent Filings

Dec 13. 2012
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A new WIPO report shows that while the global economy continued to underperform, intellectual property (IP) filings worldwide kept growing strongly in 2011.

It also finds that China’s patent office became the largest in the world, as measured by the number of patent applications received. Before 2011, China already accounted for most filings of utility models (UMs), trademarks and industrial designs.1

World Intellectual Property Indicators 2012 shows that patent filings worldwide grew by 7.8% in 2011, exceeding 7% growth for the second year in a row. Similarly, UM, industrial design and trademark filings increased by 35%, 16% and 13.3%, respectively.

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PICnight takes off!

Dec 10. 2012
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Over 100 participants on 4 evenings!

The 4 PICnights in the cities of Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg started as an experiment and ended having more than 100 participants. So, we will continue in 2013 with the formula "inform and networking".

The PICnights will include new themes, and will take places in different cities: Dusseldorf / Cologne, Stuttgart or Leipzig.
The BVPA will report soon about the first collection of topics.

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BVPA has shown to be a competent partner in the field of education

Dec 05. 2012
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BVPA offered a two day Picture Industry Basics seminar, which gave 15 participants a compressed overview of all the components on the picture industry.

The Press and Photo agency and Picture Library has justified its claim as
professional knowledge broker for the picture market by providing an
engaging and fully booked course.

The attendees received practical information from speakers within the
picture industry and among other subjects, they had a view on marketing,
image selection, keywording, copyright and and pricing.

The expert lecturers aroused an active interchange of questions which turned
into interesting discussions, some of them even continued until the lunch

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Encourage the Author's and Artist's Copyrights

Dec 05. 2012
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Press conference on the position paper of the initiative Copyright.

The initiative Copyright delivers a clear opinion on the central areas of the German Copyright and provides adequate solutions with the following position paper: "Respect for intellectual achievement and artistic work – encourage the author's and artist's copyrights" (November 2012).

The press conference will be held on 11.12.2012 at 11.00h in Haus der Bundespressekonferenz in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pfennig will be the speaker.

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