Members of av福利社鈥檚 rights and international sales teams spent a week in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico strengthening Latin American as well as global collaborations. Following our fifth year attending the Guadalajara International Book Fair/Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, PUP attended the International Publishers Congress (IPC). Sponsored biannually by the International Publishers Association (IPA)鈥�the leading federation of national, regional, and specialist publishers鈥� associations鈥�the Congress was organized in collaboration with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and in coordination with the Mexican Publishers Association (CANIEM).
The 2024 Congress convened publishers and other contributors who represented the global book industry from across more than forty countries. PUP Director Christie Henry, who served on the organizing committee for the gathering and who will begin service on the IPA鈥檚 Executive Committee in January 2025, delivered the Congress鈥檚 closing summation. Her remarks highlighted the essential role of global collaborations in protecting freedoms to publish and copyright in a world of increasing autocracy. Henry was among , including Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at the United Nations; Maria Strong, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Policy and International affairs at the US Copyright Office; Sylvie Forbin, Deputy Director General, Copyright and Creative Industries Sector of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); and Maria Pallante, President and CEO of the AAP. Greater gender equity was a goal established at the 1984 Congress, also held in Mexico City, and for the first time in IPC鈥檚 history, more than half of the Congress speakers were women.
Together with Hugo Setzer, President of CANIEM, Henry also delivered , affirming an accountable commitment to the enforcement of intellectual property protections; promotion of cultural exchange and upholding the freedom to publish; embrace of a responsible and transparent use of technology, including Artificial Intelligence; infusion of sustainability into publishing operations; and the growth of strong international publishing partnerships. PUP鈥檚 Director of Intellectual Property In茅s ter Horst, who was among the IPC delegates, translated the Declaration into Spanish.
Princeton鈥檚 participation at the IPC and the Guadalajara International Book Fair/Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara was an integral investment in our global publishing. Through a Latin American distribution partnership with and a newly launched bilingual publishing collaboration with Planeta US鈥攗p next is a major new history of the ancient Maya, by renowned archaeologist David Stuart鈥擯UP is committed to growing a robust presence among readers, of English and Spanish, across the Americas and the world.