-
The Threat Posed By Inflated Statutory Damages: Comments on the January 25, 2008 Meeting Hosted by the Copyright Office
The PRO IP Act (H.R. 4279) proposes to weaken the long established "one work" rule, which today imposes a measure of certainty on how copyright statutory damages are calculated. Under...
-
Letter to Howard L. Berman and Howard Coble re: Section 104 of HR 4279 (Dec. 12, 2007)
Letter from the Library Copyright Alliance expressing concerns with Section 104 of HR 4279 and its impact on orphan works.ltr-lca-120dec7.pdf
-
Educational Fair Use Today
Three recent appellate decisions concerning fair use should give educators and librarians greater confidence and guidance for asserting this important privilege. In all three decisions, the courts permitted extensive copying...
-
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...
-
Greenberg v. National Geographic Society, Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Jun. 13, 2007)
This case presents the question of whether Section 201(c) of the Copyright Act accords a magazine publisher a privilege to produce a digital compilation that contains exact images of its...
-
Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use [executive summary]
While policymakers pay much attention to copyrights, exceptions to copyright protection also promote innovation and are a major catalyst of U.S. economic growth. Specific exceptions to copyright protection under U.S....
-
Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use
Summary findings of a study conducted to quantify the economic contribution of fair use to the US economy. ccia-fair-use-study-slides.ppt
-
Issue Brief: Orphan Works
issue-brief-orphan-works-2006.pdf
-
S. 2237: To amend chapter 5 of title 17, United States Code, to authorize civil copyright enforcement by the Attorney General, and for other purposes.
Text of the proposed legislation. s2237-piracy.pdf
-
Letter to Deborah Platt Majoras re: In the Matter of Consumer Fair Use and Related Rights (Aug. 1, 2007)
Letter from library associations in support of the the request for investigation and complaint for injunctive relief filed by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) in the matter of...
Affiliates
