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Copyright Champion award-winner announced


THE CILIP Copyright Champion Award 2023 has been awarded to Benjamin White, Researcher at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Management, Bournemouth Uni- versity.


Nominated for his leadership and advoc acy around better copyright and IP solutions and regulation in the sector, he said: “It is a real honour and delight to receive this award personally, but also its existence is significant as it high- lights the importance for the sector the skills we need to have around copyright and by extension licensing. So much of what libraries and library patrons can do with their collections is shaped by copy- right and now with digital collections, by licensing. From a sector perspective, as a former publisher it still amazes me how much the publishing industry and its trade bodies invest in government affairs around these and other library issues – something which our sector doesn’t do and explains why we are on the back foot so often on important issues like Open Access, ebooks, inflexi- ble copyright laws etc.”


The award is sponsored by Naomi Korn Associates and is a prestigious annual hon- our that recognises the achievements of a copyright champion in the sector. Formerly Head of Intellectual Property at the British Library, Benjamin also has a background in publishing.


He is now active in the intellectual prop-


erty field in Europe, having sat on a number of EU IP working groups and is currently an advisor to the IPO as a member of the Research Excellence Advisory Group. Benjamin is co-founder of Knowledge Rights 21 (see p.12), an Arcadia funded project to promote copyright reform and open access in Europe for the benefit of research and education. Benjamin said: “Funded by the Arcadia Foundation, I established Knowledge Rights 21 to urge people to take a look online, on Twitter etc, at what we are doing around legislative change in the research space. For example, in addition to policy work in the UK and Brussels we have some interesting new studies coming out soon on issues as diverse as eBooks, open and flexible copy- right norms, rights retention and secondary publishing rights. It’s all go!’


IFLA election winners


IFLA has announced the winners of its 2023 election results for positions on the Governing Board and on over 80 different commit- tees.


Leslie Weir, the Librarian and Archi- vist for Canada since 2019, is the new President-Elect and will work with the incoming President, Vicki McDonald, who is State Librarian and Chief Exec- utive Officer of State Library of Queens- land.


Leslie won 859 votes, ahead of the 526


won by the next candidate, Jonathan Hernández (Mexico). As a Governing Board member, the Pres- ident-elect is responsible, alongside other


April-May 2023


members, for the management of the Feder- ation, overseeing governance, financial and professional matters, ensuring sustainability, and developing and overseeing the strategic direction of the Federation. Jaap Naber (The Netherlands), has been elected as Treasurer, becoming Chair of the Finance and Risk Committee, respon- sible for advising the Governing Board on the financial and risk management of the Federation. Five new Governing Board members at large have been elected, and will be responsible for the management of the Federation. Their duty is to uphold the interests of the Federation as a legal entity and as an organisation. The board is responsible for governance, financial


and professional matters, ensuring sus- tainability and developing and overseeing the strategic direction of the Federation. The new members are Stuart Hamilton (Ire-


land) with 882 votes, Kirsten Boelt (Denmark) 678, Nthabiseng Kotsokoane (South Africa) 515, Dilara Begum (Bangladesh) 465, Silvia Stasselová (Slovakia) 384. Barbara Lison, IFLA President 2021-


2023, said: “IFLA’s members have elected hundreds of volunteers who will take up their terms of office in August 2023. They join others who are continuing their terms and together form the huge engine that powers the work of IFLA for the global library field.” For more results visit www.ifla. org/election-results-2023-gb/


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Benjamin White.


The award will be presented at this year’s CILIP Copyright Conference on 16 May, at which Benjamin is delivering a presenta- tion on AI and IP.


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