World IP/FtP/ book-related developments First edition of Guadalajara International Book Fair, Article 19 founded in London.
Other IPA notable occasions 1st IPA Copyright Symposium, Heidelberg. World IP/FtP/ book-related developments IPA & STM Copyright Committees form Joint Copyright Working Group – later the International Publishing Associations Coordination Committee (IPACC) with FEP, EPC and others. Flyers from 100 years of Berne Convention.
IPA President Johan Somerwil (NL). IPA Publishing News 1984
World IP/FtP/ book-related developments First edition of the Salon du Livre de Paris (renamed Livre Paris in 2016).
IPA President Manuel Salvat Dalmau (ES) World IP/FtP/ book-related developments Reprography Rights working group created by the Copyright Committees of the International Publishers Association and STM – the group later becomes the International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organisations.
World IP/FtP/ book-related developments Grupo Ibero-Americano de Editores (GIE) founded.
IPA President Per A. Sjögren (SE) World IP/FtP/ book-related developments Nairobi Protocol to the Florence Agreement approved.
IPA President John Boon (UK) World IP/FtP/ book-related developments First edition of Index on Censorship published, UNESCO Year of the Book.
World IP/FtP/ book-related developments The first edition of the Specialist Publishers’ Exhibition for Librarians is held in London, becoming The London Book Fair in 1977. Berne Convention, Paris Text adopted: the current version of the Convention, with the Berne Annex, valid for some countries until adoption of the WTO TRIPS Agreement in 1994 and for some countries still today.
World IP/FtP/ book-related developments United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property becomes the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva.