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You Can’t Be Too Careful: The Cost of Conservatism to Academic and Research Librarians’ Mission
Argues the value of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries to help librarians determine fair use guidelines for their institutions. fair-use-code-cost-of-conservatism.pdf
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Libraries: Let Profs and Film Students Continue to Rip DVDs
In a rich submission to the Copyright Office on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance, Jonathan Band asks the Office to renew its rule allowing college professors and film and...
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LCA Files Comments with Library of Congress Regarding 1201 NOI
On November 29, 2011, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted comments to the Library of Congress in response to their Notice of Inquiry (NOI) regarding 1201 of the Copyright Act....
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In the Matter of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies: Comments of the Library Copyright Alliance and the Music Library Association
Comments of the Library Copyright Alliance and the Music Library Association. noi1201comments05.pdf
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A Copyright Victory: Video Vendor Case Dismissed!
It seems like all we hear these days in library-land is bad news on the copyright front. That makes yesterday’s decision from the federal court hearing AIME et al. v....
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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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LCA Statement on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al.
On September 14, 2011, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) released the following statement concerning the lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. HathiTrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research...
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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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