Publications from Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

Best Practices

• Best Practice for Establishing a Public Lending Right System that Supports Authors and Libraries and Enables Literacy and Learning (Annex to the 2016 IFLA Position on Public Lending Right)

Briefings

• WIPO Action Plans on Exceptions and Limitations

• IFLA Brief on Open Educational Resources

• Libraries, eLending, and the Future of Public Access to Digital Content

• Briefing: WIPO Best Practice Guide on Collective Management Organisations

• Supporter, Complement, Gateway - How School Libraries Make the Difference for Teachers

• WIPO Broadcasting Treaty - IFLA Briefing

• The European Parliament’s position on the Digital Single Market Directive. What’s in there for libraries?

Congress papers

• Drivers of Change – eBook Now Available

Guidelines

• Implementing Marrakesh in Europe - A Guide

Infographics

• European copyright reform: Performing for Libraries?

• Fair use and fair dealing for libraries

Publications

• Press Release on the Adoption of the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

• European copyright reform: resources

• IFLA's comments on the Australian Copyright Modernisation Review

• IFLA's Response to UNESCO Consultation on Open Educational Resources

Reports

• IFLA Submission on WIPO Artificial Intelligence Issues Paper

• Joint Letter on Transparency in Preparing Guidelines on Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive

• IFLA Submission to US Trade Representative on the Review of South Africa’s Position under the Generalized System of Preferences

• What They Said at SCCR 39

• Protecting Exceptions: New Survey of Legislation Safeguarding the Rights of Libraries and their Users

• South Africa Can Lead the Way: IFLA Delivers Submission on Copyright Reform

• Quotes from Member States at the 37th meeting of WIPO's SCCR

• Creative Commons Update: IFLA WLIC 2018

• Background Paper on Extended Collective Licensing

• Quotes from Member States at the 36th meeting of WIPO's SCCR

Resource Guides

• Get Into WIPO Guide

Statements

• IFLA Statement on Open Access in Intergovernmental Organisations (2019)

• IFLA Principles for Library eLending (2013)

• IFLA and EBLIDA Statement on ACTA and the Importance of Multilateral Multi-stakeholder IP Policy Formation (2010)

• IFLA Position on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (2010)

• The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age (2015)

• Brussels Declaration on Trade and the Internet for international trading systems reform (2016)

• Is Malawi’s accession to the Marrakesh Treaty effectively addressing the book famine? (2017)

• IFLA Statement on Copyright Education and Copyright Literacy (2018)

• Press Release: Supporting Quality Information: Libraries and Publishers Dialogue (2018)

• Fulfill the promise of the Innovation Union (2013)

• Response to Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules (2014)

• Statements at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

Studies

• Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty: Monitoring Report

• The Limits of Licensing: A Literature Review (Infographic)

• IFLA Briefing: Books in Blockchains

• The Limits of Licensing: A Literature Review

• The Limits of Licensing: A Literature Review (Executive Summary)

Toolkits

• Getting Started with the Marrakesh Treaty - a Guide for Librarians

• Out of Commerce Works - the Case for an Exception

Webinars

• IFLA webinar on the WIPO Latin America and the Caribbean regional meeting

• IFLA webinar on the WIPO African regional meeting

• IFLA webinar on the WIPO Asia-Pacific regional meeting