The 36th International Comics Festival of Angoulême (France)

The 36th International Comics Festival of Angoulême (France) will be held between the 29th January and 1st February 2009.

Each year the Angoulême Festival, the most celebrated event of its kind, gathers together hundreds of authors and trade representatives from all over the world.

With the international Rights Market and the International meetings, the Angoulême Festival has become a key venue for international comics publishers.

Facts and figures / 2008 Festival

195 exhibitors
8,000 professionals
1,100 authors
750 French journalists
210 international journalists

•Download the accreditation form here

•Download the booth booking forms, general regulations and booth technical details here

•For more information about the festival, click here

A Study on Chinese Singaporean Modernist Literary Movement

Our research fellow, Ms Phoon Kwee Hian, of the Year 2008 Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (LKCRF) awarded by National Library Board has completed her 6 months of full-time research. She will be giving a public talk in Mandarin to present her research findings. The topic of the talk is A Study on Chinese Singaporean Modernist Literary Movement.

Owing to institutional controversy and literary politics, not so many critics have attempted to write about the position of Modernist Literature in post-independence Chinese Singaporean literary history. The years between 1967 and 1983 are almost an unexplored land. However, this was also the critical time period of the development of Modernist Literature in Singapore.

Ms Phoon’s research involves the analysis of the literary supplements of Nanyang Siang Pau, including Youth’s Corner, Literary Miscellany, Literary Page, Café and Window, published in Singapore from 1967 to 1983 and Chao Foon Monthly in Malaysia from 1969 to 1974, available in microfilms in the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library. Her dissertation, with a firm foundation in the number of words, extensively and analytically studies the origin, development and influence of Chinese Singaporean Modernist literary movement which was helmed by 2 important promoters, Leang Meng Kwang and Tan Swie Hian. This is a talk on a path-breaking research study that you should not miss.

We sincerely invite you and your friends to attend this public talk. Details as follows:

Date: 11 November 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:30pm
Registration: click here
Language: Mandarin
Venue: Multi-purpose Room, Central Public Library, Basement 1, 100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064

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亲爱的读者：
新加坡国家图书馆管理局2008年的李光前研究奖研究员方桂香，已经在新加坡国家图书馆完成为期半年的全职研究工作，她将就研究成果在国家图书馆作一场华语公开演讲，讲题是《新加坡华文现代主义文学运动研究》。

　　方桂香的演讲提纲如下：

（一）新加坡华文现代主义文学运动的特殊人文历史情境
1. 西方文化思潮的冲击
2. 对革命现实主义文学的反叛
3. 现代主义文学的文化资产

（二）新加坡华文现代主义文学发展的政治社会与文化背景
1. 共产主义份子渗透新加坡华社
2. 新加坡左翼政党社阵以文艺作为统战的武器
3. 现代主义文学对新马年轻作者的启蒙意义

（三）新加坡华文现代主义文学运动概况与特征
1. 新加坡华文现代主义文学是文化传译的佳例
2. 恢复文学创作的自由本质精神
3. 革命现实主义文学的僵化与现代主义作家的崛起
4. 新加坡华文现代主义文学运动推动者的文艺理论与思想
5. 新加坡华文现代主义文学推动者的革新策略

　　 方桂香从李光前参考图书馆搜集到《南洋商报》副刊《文艺》、《文丛》、《咖啡座》和《窗》，以及马来西亚文学月刊《蕉风》跨16年（1967-1983）的缩微胶卷原始材料。论文在有力的数字基础上，全面论析以梁明广和陈瑞献为首的新加坡现代主义文学运动的起源、发展与影响。这个具开拓性价值的学术演讲，不容错过。

诚邀你和朋友出席研究员方桂香的这个演讲，详情如下：

日期： 2008年11月11日（星期二）
时间： 6.30pm
报名： http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg/Event.aspx?EventID=26567
语言： 华语
地点： 新加坡国家图书馆
Multipurpose Hall, Central Public Library, Basement 1
100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064

News and Notes from Frankfurt Book Fair and MIPCOM: 16 Oct 08

Singapore Publisher Penetrates Taiwan Market
First-time book publisher Wiz Pro has managed to penetrate the Taiwan market by securing rights and royalty deals for its publication Discover Professions with Mr Jobbs. The deal announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair is estimated to be worth S$50,000.
Click here to read more.

Infinite Frameworks Finalises US$20M Deal with US-based Voom HD Holdings
VOOM HD Holdings, which distributes VOOM HD Networks, the world’s largest suite of high-definition programming, and Singapore company Infinite Frameworks have sealed a deal at MIPCOM 2008 to co-produce and distribute up to US$20 million worth of high-definition programming over the next five years.
Click here to read more.

Fremantle-MDA Approves Three Multi-Media Projects
Three Singapore firms – Imaginary Friends Studios, Oak3 Films and Ochre Pictures – have been greenlighted to produce content under a partnership between FremantleMedia Enterprises and the Media Development Authority of Singapore.
Click here to read more.

Singapore Teams Up with Three Countries in Six-Part Wildlife Series
A truly multinational deal has been struck between producers from Singapore, France, Canada and Brazil to develop a six-part high-definition cross-platform documentary called Extinctions, featuring endangered species from around the world.
Click here to read more.

For latest updates on the media industry, log on to www.smf.sg

To read archives, please click here.

Taipei International Book Exhibition 2009

Seize the best and most profitable opportunity for your publishing house in TIBE 2009. The next Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) will be held between 4 February and 9 February 2009 (with Thailand as guest of honor for TIBE 2009). During this most diversified international book fair in Asia. We attract yearly 400,000 publics, domestic and foreign publishers, rights managers, writers and many other international publisher associations to this book festival. TIBE serves as an important forum for all the international publishers and is truly a prime opportunity for your publishing house to meet all your possible Asian trade partners at one time.

As organizer for this one of the important book fair in the world, the Taipei Book Fair Foundation (TBFF) welcomes all kinds of international publishing house to participate in this significant book festival in Asia. Your participation is highly expected and welcomed. Just get a registration for your company in TIBE 2009 and create a profitable business chance with the other international partner in this important event of book market! For further information about TIBE 2009 please see our homepage.

Mr. Lu-Yen LU
Taipei Book Fair Foundation
12F, No. 178, Sec. 1, Keelung Road, Taipei 110 Taiwan
Tel: +886 2 2767 1268 (Ext. 108)
Fax: +886 2 2767 2808
e-mail: luluyen@taipeibookfair.org

“Lock your IP, Don’t get Robbed!” Creative Outreach Seminar

(An event organised by IPOS, supported by National Arts Council and IP Academy)

Intellectual Property (IP) is an asset generated every day by almost everyone. For those in the creative field, IP is their life-blood, their most valuable asset. And for creators who make a living out of their creativity, IP protection becomes an important factor when they seek to maximise the full commercial values of their works.

Whether you are a creative professional or aspiring to be one, understanding the fundamentals of IP is the first step to protecting your valuable asset. And as you take your work to market, the need to protect your asset becomes greater. How do you ensure that you keep what is yours and be suitably rewarded for your creativity? These common but critical considerations are often overlooked until the unforeseen surfaces – when your IP has been infringed!

Join us at this seminar to familiarise yourself with the essentials of copyright and some of the IP issues that you should take note of when you take your work to market. The seminar will also provide a lively and interactive platform where speakers from various creative industries will share their success stories in marrying IP and their creative works. They will provide practical tips on best practices in harnessing the full commercial value of your works.

Take steps to lock your IP. Don’t wait till you are robbed of it!

For more information, visit here

For enquiries, please contact:
Ms Naveena Methani
IP Academy
Tel: 6232 9831
Email: Naveena_methani@ipacademy.com.sg

Who Should Attend?
- Artists
- Actors
- Writers
- Composers
- Animators
- Musicians
- Photographers
- Arts/Media Students
- Creators and users of content in the creative industry

Creative Outreach Seminar
Lock your IP, Don’t get Robbed!
An Event organised by IPOS, supported by National Arts Council and IP Academy

Date: 12 Nov 2008 (Wednesday)

Venue:
The Atrium
Singapore Philatelic Museum
23 B Coleman Street
Singapore 179807
http://www.spm.org.sg/museum/lmap.html

Programme:
1.30pm Registration
2.00pm Introduction – IP Overview in the Creative Arts Sector
2.30pm (I) An Overview of Copyright
(a) Conditions for copyright protection
(b) Effects of copyright protection
- Incentives/ non-incentives
- Infringements
(c) Unfair Competition
(d) Ownership

(II) Understanding Contracts
(a) IP Terms in Contracts
(b) Contract Management & Documentation
- Policy Considerations

3.45pm Tea Break
4.00pm Industry Sharing
4.30pm Q&A Session
5.00pm End

About our speaker:
Daniel Koh is a partner in Rajah & Tann’s Intellectual Property, Technology, Entertainment and Communications (iTEC) department. His main areas of practice are dispute resolution, intellectual property including entertainment, sports and gaming law. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1994 after graduating from the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore. He also graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Laws degree in 1997 as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar for superior academic performance, where he majored in intellectual property and entertainment law.

Daniel teaches at the Practice Law Course conducted by the Board of Legal Education. Daniel is a member of the Law Society’s Intellectual Property Committee and the Law Society’s Continuing Practice Development Committee. He is also President of the Licensing Executives Society (Singapore).

Daniel is the editor of The Law and Practice of Injunctions in Singapore, published by Sweet & Maxwell Asia in 2005 and has also co-authored the chapters on Intellectual Property, Defamation and Employment Disputes.

Daniel undertakes a broad range of work including advising on intellectual property, electronic commerce and communications, sports, entertainment and competition law. He is recommended for Intellectual Property work in Asialaw Profiles.

Registration Fee:
$50 for public
$20 for students

Payment Method
All cheques should be crossed and made payable to “IP Academy”.
Cheques should be mailed to:
IP Academy
6 Raffles Quay
#17-01
Singapore 048580

Cancellation & Refund:
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) reserves the right of cancellation. A full refund will be given to registrants if the course is cancelled by the IPOS. IPOS reserves the right to make changes to course details.

Withdrawal from this seminar must be received in writing at least three days prior to the commencement of the event. For any withdrawal received after this period, the participant is bound to pay all fees due, regardless of attendance.

Entry for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is still open

The 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the global prize for fiction for both established and new writers, has opened for entry. The two categories, for Best Book, worth £10,000 to the overall winner, and Best First Book, worth £5,000 to the overall winner, are open to published writers from across the 53 countries of the Commonwealth.

1. Further information, downloadable entry forms and online entry for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009 is available here

2. Entry for the Prize closes on 15 November 2008. Late entries can be submitted until 31 December 2008. Publishers should refer to entry rules available on the Prize website for full details.

3. The 2009 judges for the South East Asia and South Pacific region are:

Dr Anne Brewster (Australia) – Chairperson
Dr Lydia Joyce Wevers (New Zealand)
Dr Boey Kim Cheng (Singapore)

“Doing Business in Emerging China Cities” seminar

International Enterprise (IE) Singapore is pleased to present as part of the iadvisory Seminar Series: “Doing Business in Emerging China Cities”.
China’s growing emerging cities are making their mark. Many of the cities have been successful in growing their indigenous businesses and attracting Foreign Direct Investment. They have created expanding real estate demand, and domestic and opportunistic cross border investors are developing an active interest in these markets as transparency and liquidity levels improve.

Hear from our distinguished speakers the key issues companies should look for when expanding into China.

Key Highlights:
China Regulatory & Taxation Update Plus Snapshot On Emerging Cities
Hedging Your Financial Risk in China
Leveraging the Changing Landscape of Economic Opportunities in Emerging China Cities
Practical Tips to Doing Business in Emerging China
Human Capital in Emerging China

Get full programme here.

**Registration for 1-to-1 business clinic with speakers will be conducted onsite on 14 Nov 2008 and each company is entitled to a 15-minute clinic session with each of the speakers. Slots are limited and on a first-come-first-served basis.

Seminar Details
Date : 14 November 2008, Friday Time : 8.30am – 5.00pm Venue

Intercontinental Singapore
Ballroom 2 & 3
80 Middle Road Singapore 188966
Fees (Include seminar materials, 1-to-1 business clinic & lunch)

S$80 (General Public)
S$60 (Members of ieConnect and *supporting organizations)

Register here.

2nd Global Forum on Intellectual Property (GFIP 2009)

2nd Global Forum on Intellectual Property (GFIP 2009)

Date: 8 & 9 January 2009 (8am to 6pm)
Venue: Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore
Website: www.globalforumip.com

Theme: The Evolving IP Ecosystem: Conflicts or Consensus?
Programme: click here
Speakers: click here
Registration Details: click here

Contact Details
GFIP Secretariat (Attn: Tania Goh)
Email : enquiries@globalforumip.com
Tel : +65 6232 9832

The IP Academy (Singapore) is pleased to present the Global Forum on Intellectual Property in January 2009.

GFIP 2009 will bring together leading international IP experts, academics, business leaders, corporations and policy makers for an open exchange and discussion of critical issues and developments in the complex and dynamic IP ecosystem, with the aim of raising the bar on IP knowledge and standards, both regionally and globally.

There will be 2 intensive days of activities, comprising 2 plenary sessions, and over 30 parallel sessions and roundtables which focus on areas of more specialised interest, geared towards multi-disciplinary users with varying levels of experience. To complement the professional development agenda, there will also be numerous opportunities for socialising, networking and catching up with IP colleagues from around the world.

Please register early now at www.globalforumip.com and enjoy the October Early Bird Discounts!

First-Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative 2009

The “First-Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative” is an initiative from the Media Development Authority (MDA) and the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) to nurture talents in the publishing industry. It is supported by the Singapore Book Publishers Association.

The “First-Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative” is targeted at assisting the publication of new works by unpublished local writers and / or illustrators. Cash incentives are provided.

The 2009 initiative will focus on Picture books for children in 2 categories: ages 2-4 & ages 5-7.

Members of SBPA who are interested to be the official publisher of the 2009 intiative are invited to contact Regina Kuan by 24 October 2008.

Looking for a publisher – poetry

From Shila Mitra: sheelamitra_3@yahoo.com.au
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I am taking this opportunity to place my literary as well as socio-cultural produce which I wholeheartedly desire to get published in Singapore.

Currently I am engaged in a research work on leading Singapore poet Edwin Thumboo.

I have a collection of poems which I believe will meet the required expectation of the publishers of Singapore. I have penned on socio-cultural issues as well which covers many political contexts also. For more information, please email me at sheelamitra_3@yahoo.com.au.