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• The Protect America Act and Libraries

  The Protect America Act (PAA) has broad implications for libraries and library users. As Congress considers amending the Act prior to its sunset, the library community (the "LC") asks that...

• Research Libraries’ Enduring Responsibility for Preservation

  Collectively ARL libraries hold more than 470 million print volumes. These works are complemented by many digital works and special collections. Preservation has long been an area of significant activity...

• Mandatory Public Access to Federally Funded Research Does Not Violate Copyright Obligations

  Statement from ARL, SPARC, and ALA refuting the argument of several publishers of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals who argued that proposed legislative changes to the NIH Public Access...

• Library Copyright Alliance Supports Orphan Works Reform

  Orphan works are works whose copyright owners cannot be identified and located. Libraries and archives possess millions of orphan works in their collections, in the form of photographs, letters, manuscripts,...

• ARL Endorses Recommendations of CLIR Report on E-Journal Archiving

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) endorsed the recommendations made in the report, “E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape,” written by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich,...

• Library Copyright Alliance Strongly Supports HR 1201, the FAIR USE Act (Feb. 7, 2007)

  Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) press release in support of the introduction of the Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing US Entrepreneurship (FAIR USE) Act of 2007, HR 1201.  lca_fair_use_feb07.pdf

• Cornyn Remarks on Federal Research Public Access Act

  Senator Cornyn introduces the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, "legislation that will refine the work done by NIH and require that the federal government's leading underwriters of research...

• Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals

  This statement arose out of a 2005 meeting of library leaders hosted by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and articulates four actions needed to support the development of qualified preservation...

• ARL Endorses Digitization as an Acceptable Preservation Reformatting Option

  ARL has endorsed digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials. This endorsement comes from the work of the ARL Preservation Committee, and this statement was...

• Libraries Support H.R. 107, Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act

  H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, is needed to restore a proper balance in copyright law between the rights of copyright users and the rights of copyright owners--a...

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