« The ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA) is pleased to announce that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency dedicated to serving innovators and creators worldwide, has become an ISNI Registration Agency. (…) »
« Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a part of our everyday lives. Where a few decades ago, only humans could play chess or read handwriting, both of these tasks are now routinely performed by AI-equipped machines. Today, researchers are working on ever more ambitious applications of AI, which will revolutionize…
« Le droit d’auteur est un élément central dans le travail des bibliothèques, et c’est pourquoi l’IFLA est un défenseur actif de meilleures lois du droit d’auteur. Notre engagement auprès de l’Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) en est un élément essentiel.
Le comité du droit d’auteur…
« Nobody among members of the World Intellectual Property Organization disputes the importance of the public services provided by libraries and archives. However, positions are different when it comes to providing exceptions to copyright to those entities so they can continue to dispense their services, in particular in the digital age.…
« EIFL has compiled a booklet of statements made by librarians and archivists representing thousands of institutions at sessions of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).
Titled ‘The internet is global – but copyright exceptions stop at the border. Why we need…
« (…) En 2013, il y avait ce chiffre : 5 % des livres publiés en Europe sont accessibles aux personnes malvoyantes, un chiffre encore plus faible lorsque l’on se tourne vers des pays dits en développement comme l’Inde, qui compte plus de 63 millions de malvoyants et 8 millions…
« WIPO Translate, the machine translation tool developed by WIPO and available within the PATENTSCOPE user interface, offers now translation of full-length documents into Japanese and French from English and vice versa. This feature was introduced last year for long Chinese text. (…) »
« Libraries have been associated with creativity for almost as long as books themselves. Their function – promoting human progress by collecting, preserving, and giving access to works of science and imagination – makes them the homes of the giants on whose shoulders Newton claimed to stand. (…) »
« International copyright expert, Professor Kenneth D. Crews, led a webinar hosted by EIFL on 5 February 2016 on ‘Library copyright statutes around the world: trends and developments’.
Prof. Crews, author of the WIPO study on copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives (2015), set out…
« Digital technologies have transformed libraries, archives and access to information. They have revolutionized the information landscape.
Libraries and archives support the work of scientists and scholars, which is increasingly collaborative, interdisciplinary and global in nature. In tandem with the expanding opportunities for search and…
