IFJ Authors' Rights Summit 2000

Authors’ Rights For All – Summit 2000 was sponsored by the International Federation of Journalists with the support of a number of other organisations who wanted to launch a worldwide campaign, raising the alarm over developments at international level that threaten traditional standards of authors’ rights protection.The conference  provided a practical focus on the legal, political and professional issues at the heart of the authors’ rights debate. This background document outlines the current concerns of authors and journalists and provides a strategy for taking the debate forward