Issue Briefs

• The General Data Protection Regulation: What Does It Mean for Libraries Worldwide?

  The European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect May 25, 2018, and is likely to have a significant impact on the way libraries around the globe...

• Issue Briefs Advise Libraries on Archiving Government Information, Licensing Metadata about Scholarship

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released two issue briefs answering pressing questions about copyright faced by libraries and archives: Can institutions legally preserve and share government information from...

• Issue Brief: Using Fair Use to Preserve and Share Disappearing Government Information

  Access to government information is a fundamental principle in a democratic society. Particularly in the digital environment, government information is a driver for economic and social progress as well as...

• Issue Brief: Metadata and Copyright—Should Institutions License Their Data about Scholarship?

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is committed to promoting open scholarship, including making metadata—foundational information about scholarly works—as widely available as possible. Allowing the broadest access to and reuse...

• Issue Brief: Second Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Fair Use in Google Books Case

  On October 16, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously affirmed the lower court's fair use decision in Author's Guild v. Google, also known as the...

• Issue Brief: Analysis of the Final Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Text on Intellectual Property: Mixed Results

  On October 5, 2015, the 12 trade ministers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating parties (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the...

• Issue Brief: U.S. Copyright Status of U.S. Federal Government Works

  Works that are prepared by employees of the government pursuant to their official duties are in the public domain in the U.S.2 due to an express statutory provision prohibiting the...

• Issue Brief: Marrakesh Treaty—Background and Ratification Status

  The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled, also known as the "Marrakesh Treaty"...

• Issue Brief: U.S. Copyright Status of U.S. Federal Government Works

  Works that are prepared by employees of the government pursuant to their official duties are in the public domain in the U.S. due to an express statutory provision prohibiting the U.S. Government...

• Fair Use in Text and Data Mining: ARL Publishes Issue Brief

  ARL has released an “Issue Brief: Text and Data Mining and Fair Use in the United States” (PDF), which describes the role and usefulness of text and data mining, provides a...

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