Letter to Tracey L. Armstrong re: Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) underwriting litigation (Nov. 11, 2010)
Letter expressing ARL's disappointment with the decision by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to underwrite 50% of the plaintiffs' costs in the litigation by three publishers against Georgia State University.
 lt-ccc-gsu-11nov12.pdf
GSU Fair Use Order
This is a copyright infringement case brought against various officials of the University System of Georgia, including officials of Georgia State University. Plaintiffs are three publishing houses who claim that Defendants are responsible for infringement of their copyrighted works. They complain of Georgia State's practice of allowing professors and other instructors to utilize electronic systems to reproduce and distribute excerpts from copyrighted works for academic use by Georgia State students, without paying copyright fees to them. Plaintiffs seek injunctive and declaratory relief. gsu-fairuse-order-30sept10.pdf
Summary of Antitrust Lawsuit: SkyRiver & Innovative Interfaces v. OCLC
On July 28, 2010, SkyRiver Technology Solutions joined with Innovative Interfaces to file suit in San Francisco federal court against OCLC Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) alleging numerous anticompetitive business practices and antitrust violations. SkyRiver, a bibliographic services company, and Innovative Interfaces, a library automation company, claim that OCLC is "unlawfully monopolizing the bibliographic data, cataloguing service and interlibrary lending markets and is attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems by anticompetitive and exclusionary agreements, policies and practices." (p. 1) The outcome of the lawsuit could have significant impact on the library software and technology services industry by opening up OCLC's services, such as WorldCat, to use by commercial competitors. ARL members have asked for a review of the current state of the suit.
skyriver-oclc-antitrust29nov10.pdf
SPEC Kit 310: Author Addenda (July 2009)
SPEC Kit 310 explores how ARL member libraries are promoting the use of author addenda by researchers at their institutions. Respondents were asked to provide information on the use of author addenda at their institutions, which rights authors were encouraged to retain, and the methods by which libraries were conducting promotion and outreach efforts on the topic of author rights and addenda. This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents in the form of sample addenda, brochures, handouts, and author rights Web sites and slides from presentations to faculty and library staff.
This publication is available for purchase in both online and print versions. Download the spec-kit-purchase-options-2013.pdf for complete pricing and purchase options information.
Link to the online SPEC Kit 310 on the ARL Digital Publications website.
H.R.2408 - Public Domain Enhancement Act
To amend title 17, United States Code, to allow abandoned copyrighted works to enter the public domain after 50 years. View document(s) here »
Dastar Corporation, Petitioner v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Et al.
In this case, we are asked to decide whether ß43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U. S. C. ß1125(a), prevents the unaccredited copying of a work, and if so, whether a court may double a profit award under ß1117(a), in order to deterfuture infringing conduct.
dastar603.pdf
Issue Brief: Orphan Works
Membership Meeting 2008 (Spring): On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Public Policy Promotes Progress
Proceedings of the 152nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2008. mm08sp-mcpherson.pdf
Membership Meeting 2008 (Spring): Section 108 Study Group
Proceedings of the 152nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2008.  mm08sp-neal.pps
Membership Meeting 1998 (Fall): The Digital Millennium: What Does It All Mean?
Proceedings of the 133rd ARL Membership Meeting, "Confronting the Challenges of the Digital Era," October 1998. mm98fall-lutzker.pdf
Membership Meeting 2011 (Spring): Copyright Risk and Reward in Mass Digitization
Presented at the 158th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2011.
mm11sp-smith.pdf
Membership Meeting 2011 (Spring): WIPO AND LIBRARIES
Presented at the 158th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2011.
mm11sp-band.pdf
Membership Meeting 2011 (Fall): Undue Diligence
Presented at the 159th ARL Membership Meeting, October 2011.
mm11fall-farb.pdf
Detailed Responses to Section 108 Working Group Questions
The Section 108 Study Group released a Background Paper and requested comments on issues relating to library and archival exceptions under Section 108. The library community provided written and oral statements to the Study Group. Based on the additional input from the library community, the responses in this document provide greater detail and in some instances, clarify the earlier statements filed in conjunction with the March Roundtables and the request for comment by the Study Group. section108-working-group-2006.pdf
Membership Meeting 2003 (Fall): Intellectual Property and Copyright Committee [highlights]
Proceedings of the 143rd ARL Membership Meeting, October 2003. mm03fall-ipandcopyright.pdf
Introduction to Scholarly Communication Issues from UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management
Issues in Scholarly Communication: Discussion Leader's Guide: Author Rights II: Institutional Strategies for Enhancing Rights Management
These guides are tools designed for library leaders to use for organizing a summer- or semester-long discussion series. Each guide offers a brief scoping statement, a suggested reading or resource to review, and a set of discussion questions to launch an hour-long informal conversation among library staff. brown-bag-author-rights2-may08.pdf
Issues in Scholarly Communication: Discussion Leader's Guide: Author Rights: An Introductory Discussion
These guides are tools designed for library leaders to use for organizing a summer- or semester-long discussion series. Each guide offers a brief scoping statement, a suggested reading or resource to review, and a set of discussion questions to launch an hour-long informal conversation among library staff. brown-bag-author-rights1-may08.pdf
Introducing Author Rights [video script]
Transcript of the "Introducing Author Rights" video. author-rights-video-script.pdf
Author Rights Resources
Bibliography of author rights resources compiled by ARL and SPARC. author-rights-resources-jun07.pdf
Letter to Rasenberger Re: Section 108 (February 22, 2006)
In the Matter of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies
Comments of the Library Copyright Alliance and the Music Library Association.
1201-comments-02dec08.pdf
Letter to Rasenberger Re: Section 108 (April 24, 2008)
Comments from ALA and ARL on the Section 108 Study Group efforts. rasenberger-108-letter-24apr06.pdf
Libraries Support H.R. 107, Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act
H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, is needed to restore a proper balance in copyright law between the rights of copyright users and the rights of copyright owners--a balance that is essential to the future conduct of research and education in the digital age.
107libstatement23june04.pdf
ALA and ARL Response to the Section 108 Study Group Regarding Interlibrary Loan and Other Copies for Users
In the Matter of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies: Comments from the Library Associations
Comments submitted in response to the Copyright Office's Notice of Inquiry dated October 15, 2002, on behalf of five major library associations.
noi1201comments18dec02.pdf
In the Matter of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies: Comments of the Library Copyright Alliance and the Music Library Association
Comments of the Library Copyright Alliance and the Music Library Association.
noi1201comments05.pdf
In the Matter of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems For Access Control Technologies
Reply Comments of Library Associations following public hearings. noi1201comments27jun00.pdf
Letter to Veronica Steadman re: Technological Protection Systems for Digitized Copyrighted Works (Docket No. 2003-C-006): Higher Education Associations’ and Library Associations’ Statement for the Record (Feb. 4, 2003)
Letter from higher education and library associations to the US Patent and Trademark Office. lt-steadman04feb03.pdf
Greenberg v. National Geographic Society: Amicus Brief in support of National Geographic Society
Two photographers claimed that the inclusion of their photographs in the National Geographic Society's (NGS) CD-ROM version of the NGS magazine violated their copyrights and that the NGS was not exempt under Section 201(c) of the Copyright Act. amici-greenberg-18oct07.pdf
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