TIGAR Project - News Archive

  • Vitgeverij Verloren BV, a publisher of history books from The Netherlands, signs up to the Fast Track MOU (November 2011)
  • Playwrights Canada Press Limited, drama publisher from Canada, Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., academic publishing company, and Association pour le Bien des Aveugles et malvoyants Bibliothèque Braille Romande et livre parlé, TI in Switzerland, sign up to the Fast Track MOU (November 2011)
  • First successful file transfers completed under fast track approach, between BrailleNet (a supplying TI from France) and CNIB and Nota (receiving TIs from Canada and Denmark) (October, 2011)
  • SAGE Publications (including SAGE Publications Inc, SAGE Publications Ltd and SAGE Publications India Ltd.), independent international publisher, signs up to the Fast Track MOU (October, 2011)
  • The Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Organisation (DALRO), a reproduction rights organisation (RRO) in South Africa, becomes the first RRO to sign up to the Fast Track MOU on behalf of Macmillan South Africa (Pty) Limited (October 2011)
  • Les Éditions de Minuit, Les Éditions Liana Levi and Les Éditions Gallimard, leading publishers from France, and The Random House Group Limited, a general book publihsing company based in the UK, sign up to the Fast Track MOU (October 2011)
  • Bloomsburg Publishing, HarperCollins Publishers and La Martinière Groupe, international publisher houses, sign up to the Fast Track MOU (October 2011)
  • Elsevier, international publisher house, signs up to the Fast Track MOU covering its 16 global affiliates (October, 2011)
  • Media-Participations, RH based in France and Belgium, signs up to the Fast Track MOU (September 28, 2011)
  • Guidelines for trusted intermediaries and right holders who are considering participation or have decided to participate in the TIGAR Fast Track approach (September, 2011) PDF, Guidelines for Participation in the TIGAR Fast Track Approach
  • BrailleNet and Association for the Blind of Western Australia, trusted intermediaries serving people with print disabilities in France and Australia respectively, sign up to the Fast Track MOU (September, 2011)
  • La Societe Hachette Livre, Editions Albin Michel and Les Editions Quaei, right holders from France, sign up to the Fast Track MOU (September, 2011)
  • Editis Holding, from France, becomes the first signatory of the TIGAR Fast Track MOU from the right holder community (September 12, 2011)
  • Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind, a trusted intermediary serving people with print disabilities in Brazil, signs up to the TIGAR Fast Track MOU (August, 2011)
  • Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) and South African Library for the Blind (SLAB) sign up to Fast Track MOU (July, 2011)
  • Danish National Library for People with Print Disabilities (Nota) becomes first trusted intermediary to formally sign up to the Fast Track MOU (July 8, 2011)
  • WIPO completes implementation of an Interim FTP server solution for file exchange in the TIGAR Fast Track approach (July, 2011)
  • TIGAR Project web site formally launched (July, 2011)
  • TIGAR 'Requirements Specification Group' established with representatives from TIs and RHs to establish the functional requirements of the ICT component for the TIGAR project (June, 2011)
  • TIGAR 'Fast Track Memorandum of Understanding' (MOU) finalized and approved for use by the TIGAR Steering Committee PDF, TIGAR Fast Track Memorandum of Understanding (June, 2011)
  • Funding commitments received from the right holder community and a WIPO Member State (May - July, 2011)
  • Fast Track approach approved in principle by TIGAR Steering Committee (February 2011)
  • Stakeholders' Platform Launches Project to Facilitate Access by VIPs to Published Works (WIPO Press Release PR/2010/668) (October 23, 2010)

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