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• 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...

• Copyright Office Report on Orphan Works: ARL Releases Issue Brief

  ARL has published an issue brief on the US Copyright Office’s June 4, 2015, Report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization (PDF), which includes recommendations for legislation on orphan works—copyrighted...

• Issue Brief: Text and Data Mining and Fair Use in the United States

  No researcher can read all relevant research articles that are published in her field of interest. Even if she could, she would not be able to detect patterns in the...

• Issue Brief: Copyright Office Report on Orphan Works

  On June 4, 2015, the Copyright Office released its Report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization (PDF), including recommendations for legislation on orphan works and the creation of an extended...

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