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YouTube Announces It Will Defend Some Creators’ Fair Use Claims
YouTube recently announced that it will protect "some of the best examples of fair use on YouTube" by defending some creators in copyright litigation. Under this initiative, YouTube "indemnifies creators whose...
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Efforts by the Anne Frank Foundation to Prevent Anne Frank’s Diary from Entering Public Domain
Copyright term in several countries, including the United States and European Union, go far beyond international standards. The current term is set at the life of the author plus seventy...
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ARL and Higher Education Support Lingua Editors
On November 12, 2015, ARL, together with The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the American Council on Education (ACE), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the...
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ARL Disappointed in Senate’s Passage of Flawed Cybersecurity Bill
On October 27, 2015, the U.S. Senate voted 74-21 to pass the flawed Cyberinformation Sharing Act (CISA), a slightly modified version from the bill that passed the House of Representatives...
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New 1201 Rules on Exemptions to Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures Released
On October 27, 2015, the Library of Congress released its final rules for the current cycle of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) Section 1201 rulemaking, setting forth exemptions from the...
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Libraries Comment on Copyright Office Extended Collective Licensing Proposal
In June 2015, the Copyright Office released its report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. When the report was released, ARL noted flaws with the report for both the orphan...
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It’s #OAWeek
Open Access Week 2015 is in full swing! Here's a list of events happening this week worldwide. Just a couple quick points of note. First, Congress continues to consider S. 779,...
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Second Circuit Affirms Fair Use in Google Books Case
*This blog post is now available in a PDF version as an issue brief here* On October 16, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously affirmed...
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Analysis of the Final TPP (Leaked) Text on Intellectual Property: Mixed Results
*This post is also available as an issue brief here* On October 5, 2015, the twelve trade ministers of the TPP negotiating parties (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,...
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TPP Trade Ministers Announce Agreement
On October 5, 2015, the twelve trade ministers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement announced that an agreement had been reached after five years of negotiations. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is...
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