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In June, the Publishers Association hosted a session on Sustainability and Law with Osborne Clarke.
The Publishers Association has been supporting the 'Books without Borders' initiative to help produce 16,000 copies of Ukrainian language children's books to be distributed to Ukrainian refugee children of different ages in the UK. The aim of the initiative is to minimise the disruption to education, unite, and bring back the feeling of home.
The Publishers Association has joined other trade bodies and collective management organisations focused on publishing to raise concerns to the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) about the government’s decision to introduce a new copyright exception that allows any entity anywhere to mine copyrighted text and data for free, for any commercial use.