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About those orphans
In the days since they filed a wide-ranging lawsuit against research libraries over their collaboration with Google and the nascent Orphan Works Project, the Authors Guild has dropped several clever...
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Library Copyright Alliance Statement re: Authors Guild et al. v. Hathi Trust et al.
We are deeply disappointed by the Authors Guild’s decision to file a lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. Hathitrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners. The...
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ARL Releases “Resource Packet On Orphan Works: Legal And Policy Issues For Research Libraries”
View or download the PDF HERE. Late yesterday the Association of Research Libraries released a Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries. Prepared by Prudence...
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Second Circuit Makes the First Sale Situation Worse for Libraries
Guest post by Jonathan Band, policybandwidth. The Second Circuit yesterday issued a decision concerning the first sale doctrine that is even worse for libraries than the Costco decision. The issue...
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Google and Walmart – Wait, what?
In a new filing this week, one of the objectors to the Google Books settlement raised the spectre of the recent Supreme Court decision barring an epic class action sex...
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How Many Times Must Libraries Pay for the Same Coffee, er, Content?
In a recent “Soapbox” column for Publishers Weekly, Tom Allen of the Association of American Publishers seems to suggest that the academic publishing ecosystem may suffer grave harm due to...
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Publishers Lose Another Claim As GSU Trial Comes to a Close
A one-sentence entry in an otherwise routine record of trial proceedings on May 26 reveals a significant victory for Georgia State University in its ongoing dispute with three academic publishers....
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PATRIOT Act Extended til 2015
Leaders in the U.S. Congress pushed through a renewal of three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act late last Thursday night, May 26, reauthorizing them with no substantive change...
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Apple, Google grilled on mobile privacy
A Guest Post by ARL Law and Policy Fellow Kristen Riccard On May 11, the US Senate Judiciary Committee’s newly formed Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, held its...
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Leahy Bill Would Give Vital Protection to Internet Communication
On Tuesday, May 17, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill that would update the privacy protections currently available for Internet communications such as...
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