Issue Briefs - Page: 3

• 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...

• Georgia State University (GSU) Fair Use Decision Recap and Implications: Issue Brief

  On Friday, May 11, 2012, Judge Orinda Evans released her 350-page opinion in the copyright infringement lawsuit against Georgia State University. This issue brief summarizes the key rulings in the...

• 21st-Century Collections: Calibration of Investment and Collaborative Action

  Deliberations over library collections will have no end. Balancing serial and monograph investments, assessing the latest digital format, anticipating new directions in teaching and research—this large undertaking resists all formulas....

• Issue Brief: FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules and Implications for Research Libraries

   issue-brief-net-neutrality-rules-implications-24jan11.pdf

• LCA Releases Issue Brief on Streaming Films for Educational Purposes

  This paper considers three provisions of the Copyright Act that could permit streaming of this sort: Sections 107, 110(2), and 110(1). While all three provisions may apply, Section 107 fair...

• LCA Releases Issue Brief on ACTA

  On October 15, 2009, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) released an issue brief on the Anti-Conterfeiting Trade Agreement. Copyright

• Issue Brief–International Copyright: Why it Matters to Libraries

  On October 12, 2009, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) released an issue brief on international copyright and why it matters to libraries. Issues Brief (PDF)

• Future Directions for the Federal Depository Library Program

  Discusses the need to identify a sustainable framework that will provide access to and preservation of government information in the years ahead.  issue-brief-future-direction-fdlp-04dec08.pdf

• Issue Brief: AAP PR Campaign against Open Access and Public Access to Federally Funded Research

   issue-brief-aap-pr-2007.pdf

• Issue Brief: Libraries and CALEA Obligations

   issue-brief-libraries-calea-2006.pdf

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