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• LCA Files Amicus Brief Supporting Defendent—Appellant and Reversal in Authors Guild v. Google

  On November 16, 2012, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed an amicus brief in support of defendant-appellant and reversal in the Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., case being...

• Good News for Libraries in Latest Round of DMCA Exceptions

  Last Friday the Librarian of Congress officially issued the latest iteration of rules (here) describing exceptions to the general rule in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that it is...

• Lessons From the Siege

  At last year’s Fall Membership Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries here in Washington, D.C., the refrain was, “libraries are under siege.” Copyright litigation against libraries was proceeding on...

• ARL Issue Brief: MOOCs + Libraries = ???

  Research libraries have a stake in MOOCs - who owns the course content, what kinds of materials are incorporated into the virtual classroom and assigned for outside reading, what happens...

• Issue Brief: Massive Open Online Courses – Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries (Oct. 22, 2012)

  The advent of Massive Open Online Courses raises serious legal questions that in turn pose important and fundamental policy challenges for research libraries. As universities rush to find ways to...

• Judge Baer channels #librarianscode

  In what can only be described as a total victory for libraries, Judge Harold Baer of the Southern District of New York held in an opinion published yesterday that the...

• LCA Comments on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Decision

  On October 10, 2012, Judge Harold Baer put forth a decision that the HathiTrust Digital Library's (HDL) use of digitized works is a fair use permitted under the Copyright Act....

• Hon. Harold Baer, Jr. Decision in Authors Guild v HathiTrust (Oct. 10, 2012)

  Before the Court are two motions for judgment on the pleadings and three motions for summary judgment.  hathitrust-decision10oct12.pdf

• Publishers Appeal District Court’s GSU E-reserves Decision

  Yesterday the publisher plaintiffs (SAGE, Oxford U Press, and Cambridge U Press) announced that they would appeal the district court’s decision of the GSU electronic reserves case. It looks like...

• ARL Joins LCA Colleagues and EFF to File Amicus in Support of #GBS

  On August 1, 2012, ARL joined other members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) (the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries and Association of College and Research Libraries), as...

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