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In response to issues raised by initiatives such as the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), in spring 2005 the U.S. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress convened the Section 108 Study Group. The Study Group is charged to investigate whether Section 108 of the Copyright Act, which grants exceptions to libraries and archives, should be updated to better address the use of digital technologies and networked-based resources.

dig-preservation-study-response-09nov06.pdf

documents-librarianship-08sep05.pdf

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This memo alerts you to an important new federal requirement contained in the Public Access Policy from NIH that will affect current and future NIH grants and contracts.

sample-nih-memo2007.pdf

Amici submit this brief urging that this Court reverse the decision of the trial court (in Register.com v. Verio) which effectively prohibits the copying of facts from a publicly accessible website. Amici represent the interests of many sectors of the computer, software, Internet telecommunications, and information services industries, as well as users of digital information.

amicus-revised-register-verio-01mar01.pdf

band-web-archive-2006.pdf

This piece was written in hopes of clarifying one aspect of the confusion on digital delivery of content to the "physical" classroom.

films-in-classroom10sep09.pdf

In this paper, the Information Access Alliance (Alliance) describes the issues that have emerged as the industry has become increasingly concentrated and advocates for a new standard of antitrust review that we urge be adopted by state and federal antitrust enforcement agencies in examining merger transactions in the serials publishing industry.

iaa-publisher-mergers-jun03.pdf

The American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Special Libraries Association endorsed the Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization (2004).

pr-endorse-new-wipo-agenda-27sep04.pdf

In this October 2004 letter, Prudence Adler writes on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries to express ARL's strong support for the NIH proposal to provide freely available online access to NIH-funded manuscripts via PubMed Central. There are many aspects of the NIH plan that ARL endorses and ARL applauds NIH's leadership in promoting this balanced initiative. 

nih-publicaccess-comments-29oct04.pdf

This is "Appendix C: Detailed Evaluation Requirements and Desirables" of the 2012 ARL e-book licensing agent RFP, more commonly known as the "ARL E-Book Requirements."

 arl-e-book-requirements-2012.pdf