Free CLASS talk on copyright involving licensing and royalty distribution

The Copyright Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore Limited (CLASS) will hold a free talk on copyright involving licensing and royalty distribution relating to you/your organization’s membership with CLASS.

The talk will be held on March 27 (Friday) at 2pm at the Cantonment Towers Residents’ Committee Centre in Block 12, #01-15 Cantonment Close (near the SOS office and the Tanjong Pagar Malayan Railway Station).

To facilitate seating arrangements (two representatives each, if yours is a publisher member), please email CLASS with your name/s and contact details by March 18, 2009.

Publishing Forum, Bali, 16-17 October 2008

The Indonesian Publishers Association, the Lontar Foundation, and the Association of Indonesian Translators, in cooperation with the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival present: The International Publishing Forum.

When: 16-17 October 2008
Where: The Neka Museum of Indonesian Art Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has, in the five years since its establishment, become Indonesia’s premier meeting point for authors, translators, and publishers. The Festival serves as a hothouse for ideas about publishing and a springboard for the introduction of foreign writers to the Indonesian audience and for Indonesian writers to the international world.

In conjunction with the upcoming 2008 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, the Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI), in association with the Lontar Foundation and the Association of Indonesian Translators (HPI), will host the “IKAPI International Publishing Forum.” This event will bring together publishers, editors, writers, translators, printers—key players in the publishing world from both Indonesia and abroad—to share their knowledge and, with the participants, seek solutions for some of the challenges that beset this creative industry.

The Forum will address questions that bedevil writers, editors, and translators and challenges confronting publishers and printers. The first of its kind to be held in Indonesia, this forum will serve as the basis for the establishment of a wider network of cooperative relationships in the book-publishing industry.

List of Events:

1. Panel Discussion: “Selling Yourself and Your Ideas”
(16 October 2008, 0930-1230; The Neka Museum, Jl. Raya Sanggingan, Ubud)

Authors, editors, and translators often face the problem of how to “sell” both their ideas and finished works to publishers. This meeting will focus on the challenges these people face and ways of overcoming them.

0900-0930 Registration and Coffee
0930-0935 Introduction of speakers by forum moderator, Hendarto Setiadi
0935-0945 Opening Remarks by Mari Pangestu on “Publishing as a Creative Industry and its Contribution to National Development”
0945-1005 John McGlynn: “The Presentation of Ideas: How to Find Yourself a Publisher”
1005-1015 Open Discussion / Q&A
1015-1040 Martin Amanshauser: “Translators and Translations: Bridging Cultures”
1040-1050 Open Discussion / Q&A
1050-1105 Coffee Break
1105-1130 Shelly Keningsberg: “The Literary Agent: Friend or Foe”
1130-1140 Open Discussion / Q&A
1140-1205 Elizabeth Pisani: “Selling Stories”
1205-1215 Open Discussion / Q&A
1215-1225 Agung Adiprasetya / August Parengkuan: Concluding Remarks:
1225-1230 Announcements of the next day’s events.

2. Panel Discussion: ”Two Way Traffic in Publishing”
(17 October 2008, 0930-1230; The Neka Museum, Jl. Raya Sanggingan, Ubud)

With growth of the internet and other global trends, it is possible to obtain increasingly more information about the world outside ones own nation. Unfortunately, in the book publishing industry, international communications appear to be a one-way street with more and more books from North America and Europe flooding the Asian market. This panel will focus on prospects for increasing two-way traffic in the publishing world.

Speakers on this panel will talk about the impact of new technologies on the publishing industry and discuss the challenges and opportunities they present. They will look at new business models for the publishing industry including print on demand publishing systems. They will talk about problems of book distribution in Indonesia and abroad, developments in government policies regarding the book industry, particularly ones that might support co-publishing programs between the countries of the Asian and Australian region.

0900-0930 Registration and Coffee
0930-0935 Introduction of speakers by forum moderator, Putut Widjanarko
0935-0945 Opening Remarks by Fasli Jalal: “Government Support for the Publishing Industry”
0945-1015 Triena Ong: “Prospects of Co-publishing in the Book World”
1015-1030 Open Discussion / Q&A
1030-1100 Mark Hanuz: “Getting the Word Out: New Technologies in the Publishing Industry”
1100-1115 Open Discussion / Q&A
1115-1130 Coffee Break
1130-1200 Anthonius Riyanto: “Solving Problems in Book Distribution”
1200-1215 Open Discussion / Q&A
1215-1225 Dominador D. Buhain: Concluding Remarks
1225-1230 Thank You: Setia Dharma Madjid

3. Special Event
(17 October 2008, 1600-1800; Komaneka Resort, Jalan Bhisma, Ubud, Bali)

Particpants in the International Publishing Forum are invited to attend a cocktail party to mark the launching of the biography of Molly Bondan (1912-1990), an Australian woman who came to Indonesia during the Revolution and later established herself as an unofficial cultural liaison officer for Indonesia and the West. As Garet Evans noted, “For more than forth-five years Molly Bondan was a living symbol of the sympathetic links between Australia, the land of the upbringing, and Indonesia, her adopted country. Australian can feel justly proud of ther contribution to the struggle for Indonesians to gain their independence, and to the development of the Republic of Indonesia.”
Official hosts of this event are the Australian Embassy and the Obor Foundation (in cooperation with IKAPI, the Lontar Foundation, and HPI).

Registration and Accommodation

Persons interested in attending the international publishers forum must obtain a ticket from the UWRF organizing committee. To do this go to the UWRF website (www.ubudwritersfestival.com) and click on “Tickets.” Please note that the number of tickets is limited and will be given on a first-come-first-served basis.

The organizing committee of the International Publishing Forum provides accommodations only for speakers at the forum. Participants who need to find accommodations in Ubud may make their own room reservations through the UWRF website. Simply go to (www.ubudwritersfestival.com) and click on “Accomomodations” to find a choice of nearby hotels.