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Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
On Monday, January 14, 2013, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) (whose members are the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries and Association of College and Research Libraries) filed comments...
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Fair Use of Textbooks – a Paradigm Case
In discussing fair use in the educational realm, we often mention that copying and distributing excerpts from textbooks, workbooks, and the like will present a challenge for the would-be fair...
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UC Berkeley Takes Historic Photos of California Landscape Online
UC Berkeley’s University Librarian Tom Leonard is a little self-effacing as he describes a project that might not have been possible before the Code, making historic California photographs available online...
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An Art Historian Uses the #LibrariansCode to Advocate for Open Access
Laurie Monahan is a professor on a mission. She’s an art historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and for years she’s been working with colleagues to develop an...
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Wash. U. St. Louis Gets Double Exposure for Its Graphic History Library
When museum curator Sky Lacerte saw a conference session about how some archives use photo overlays to show how landscapes and buildings have changed over time, she was inspired to...
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Starting a Copyright Conversation at Yale
As a participant in early meetings with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation about worthwhile projects in support of libraries, Yale University Librarian Susan Gibbons was there at the inception of...
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UC Boulder Takes VHS Tapes Back to the Future With the #Librarianscode
This is the first blog post in a series highlighting some of the fair use success stories we’re beginning to hear from librarians using the Code to move past fear...
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The #Librarianscode Comes to Life at UCLA, UC Berkeley, U. of Florida, Texas A&M, and Yale
Today we are very happy to debut a collection of videos with directors of ARL member libraries talking about how the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic...
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Justices Consider the Horribles in Kirtsaeng
On Monday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, a case in which the key issue is the proper scope of the...
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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...