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Welcome Krista Cox, ARL’s New Director of Public Policy Initiatives
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Krista L. Cox director of public policy initiatives, effective January 6, 2014. Cox is currently the staff attorney/legal counsel at Knowledge Ecology...
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What’s So Bad About ECPA?
techfreedom: ECPA is the law that is supposed to protect your digital data from unreasonable search. What’s wrong with it? Tons. What does that mean? Your data is often not...
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ARL Joins Day of Action to Demand #ECPA Reform
Today, ARL is joining a nationwide day of action calling for reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the law that says the government can access your email and...
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Google Books Decision A Huge Victory for Fair Use and for Research Libraries
In a powerful affirmation of the value of research libraries, Judge Denny Chin today ruled that Google’s digitization of millions of books from university library collections was a fair use....
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Canceling Green OA Journals: A Very Expensive Way to Not Save Money (while impeding your community’s access)
A guest post by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing and Licensing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology In a recent blog post, prompted by a recent listserv thread, Joseph Esposito...
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New Infographic: Good News in Fair Use for Libraries
A new infographic released today tells the story of library fair use and the Code of Best Practices in a clear and compelling way. There’s an embeddable PNG for your...
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The Marrakesh Treaty
by guest blogger Jonathan Band, policybandwidth Read the full text of A User Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty On June 27, 2013, a Diplomatic Conference of the World Intellectual Property...
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ARL Supports Amash-Conyers Amendment to End Bulk Collection Under Section 215
An amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill proposed by Representatives Justin Amash (R-MI) and John Conyers (D-MI) would return Section 215 to a reasonable scope, allowing the collection of important...
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Good fair use news from the 2d Circuit in #GBS
This morning a panel of judges from the Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a short but significant opinion in the hotly-contested Google Books litigation. In less...
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The Beginning of the End of the Book Famine
What a difference a week makes! After a lengthy negotiation process that had many advocates wondering whether the result would be worth the effort, last night the WIPO negotiators in...
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