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Abu Dhabi International Bookfair

Dec 19. 2010
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© Abu Dhabi International Bookfair

The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair is the most professionally organized, most ambitious and fastest growing book fair in the Middle East and North Africa.

Abu Dhabi is the motor driving the professional and commercial development of the regional publishing industry, and is financially and philosophically committed to the long-term expansion of the global book business.

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British Library on CEPIC and ARROW at the UK Parliament

Nov 04. 2011
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Interior of the House of Lords c. 1896 Source: Topfoto

BySylvie FodorOn 1 November, at a hearing held at the House of Commons in the UK, Ben White of the British Library said how CEPIC would be feeding images into the Arrow project. Here is an opportunity to clarify what ARROW is and what CEPIC and ARROW do together.

The full hearing of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee of the House of Commons has been recorded. It is available on the website of the UK Parliament [Please listen from minutes 10.00 for above mentioned declaration]

Ben White's statement on how "CEPIC will feed images into ARROW" is too simple to be accurate.

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Vice-President of European Commission addresses Federation of European Publishers

Oct 17. 2011
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Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Books in the 21st century Frankfurt Book Fair this week stressed the importance of addressing issues of copyright ...

and intellectual property in her opening address to representative and members of the Federation of European Publishers in Frankfurt. She highlighted new technologies are giving us the opportunity to change how consume and that the digital transition is set to “revolutionise” how we access information.

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Events at the Frankfurt Bookfair 2011

Oct 05. 2011
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A number of events at the Frankfurt Bookfair will allow the picture business to stay in touch with the latest developments around the publishing market and the activity of trade associations.

  • Special Area for Picture Agencies

Following the Center for Photography in 2009 and 2010, a special area in Hall 3.1 will be devoted to images businesses. BVPA (Hall 3.1 A 105) invites every day at 17.00 H to a Happy Hour.

Magazine PICTORIAL has established a list of picture related businesses exhibiting at the Fair, mostly in Hall 3.1 but also in Hall 4.1 and 8.0.

  • Joint CEPIC/ EVA Stand

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BVPA presents German publishers' app-offers in an overview

Sep 30. 2011
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App-publications from newspaper and magazine publishers have become increasingly important for picture agencies.

The German Association of Picture Agencies, BVPA, now presents a compilation on the latest app-offers from German newspapers and magazines.

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Banned and readmitted: Belgian newspaper websites in Google Search index

Aug 15. 2011
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Google banned Belgian newspapers both from Google News and Google Search after the Belgian publishers collecting society, Copiepresse, supported by a number of journalists and photographers, filed and won a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in 2006 and 2011.

However, after some negotiations, Google has now announced that it will re-index the pages in their search engine.

Copiepresse accused Google of unauthorised listing of the newspapers in their news search and for making profit out of it. Furthermore, the cache function allowed users to preview content that has already been taken off the actual website. The claim has been admitted by the court on May 5th, 2011.

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Creating new orphans – how the internet "loses" parents

Apr 29. 2011
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ByUte KrebsThe discussion on orphan works is getting louder in Europe, after the USA made the start on creating a legal status for such parentless works a few years ago.

European states have very different legal systems and legal understandings which make the creation of one single law at European Union level almost impossible. Cepic have become very active in lobbying work over the past few years, thanks largely to Sylvie Fodor who is enviably trilingual and so perfectly placed to follow the debates in different jurisdictions.

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BnF signs new deal with Jouve-Safig-Diadéis partnership for digitization of its print collections

Apr 24. 2011
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As the principal representative of the operation, the Jouve Group will work in partnership with Safig, Diadéis and the subcontractor BancTec, to digitize more than 70,000 works per year, of which around 70% will come from the print collections of the BnF (Bibliothèque national de France) ...

... and 30% from the collections of partner libraries.

Financed by the Centre national du livre, the agreement has been agreed for a three year period, renewable for one year after.

The previous agreement was signed in 2007 with a Safig-BancTec-Diadéis partnership. It allowed the digitization and OCR (optical character recognition) of 36.6 million pages.

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Key points of judge Chin's rejection of the proposed Google Book Settlement

Apr 06. 2011
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On 22 March 2011, Judge Denny Chin issued his much anticipated ruling in the Google Book Search class action lawsuit pending before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Judge Chin made clear that the proposed settlement was neither fair, adequate nor reasonable. In rejecting the proposed Amended Settlement Agreement (“ASA”) under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Judge Chin noted that it would:

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Google Book Settlement rejected

Mar 29. 2011
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ByNancy WolffIn a much-anticipated decision on the proposed settlement in the class action among The Authors Guild, various publishers and Google, Judge Chin rejected the settlement.

Since the case was a class action, the court, and not the parties, must determine whether a settlement is fair, adequate and reasonable. In a very thorough decision, Judge Chin concluded that this settlement was not.

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