• ARL Files Comments in NTIA Request for Comment on Consumer Privacy

  On Friday, November 9, ARL filed comments responding to National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) request for comment on "Developing the Administration's Approach to Consumer Privacy." In the submitted comments,...

• Report from AAU-APLU Workshop on Accelerating Access to Research Data

  *This is a guest blog post by Mary Lee Kennedy, Executive Director of ARL; Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Strategic Initiatives; and Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Head Digital Scholarship and Data Services, Penn...

• ARL Celebrates Open Access Week with Commitment to Open Scholarship

  *This is a guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, ARL program director for strategic initiatives.* ARL’s mission is to catalyze the collective efforts of research libraries to enable knowledge creation and...

• Eleventh Circuit Reverses and Remands Georgia State E-Reserves Case (Again)

  The long saga of the Georgia State University (GSU) e-reserves case continues as the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court’s ruling which had found that...

• Eleventh Circuit Finds Georgia’s Annotated State Laws Not Copyrightable

  On Friday, October 19, the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that Georgia’s annotated laws are not protected by copyright, reversing the district court. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org,...

• What’s In (and Out) of the IP Chapter of the United States, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement

  Yesterday, Canada announced—just in time for the self-imposed deadline by the negotiating parties of September 30— that it would join the trade agreement with the United States and Mexico. This...

• Software Preservation Best Practices in Fair Use to Help Safeguard Cultural Record, Advance Research

  *Cross-posted from ARL News* *Edited to add links to blog posts by Patricia Aufderheide and Brandon Butler* The new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation provides clear guidance...

• Documentary “Paywall: The Business of Scholarship” Premieres in Washington, DC

  *This is a guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, ARL program director for strategic initiatives.* *Updated September 11, 2018, with quotation from Geneva Henry.* The documentary film Paywall: The Business of...

• Government Petitioners’ Brief Points Out Verizon Throttling of Fire Department Battling Largest Fire in California History

  On August 20, 2017, petitioners challenging the FCC’s abandonment of net neutrality protections in Mozilla v. FCC filed their initial briefs. Coverage of Mozilla’s joint brief with other non-government petitioners...

• Mozilla, Internet Companies, Public Interest Groups and Other Petitioners File Brief in Net Neutrality Case

  The litigation around the FCC’s decision in 2017 to abandon net neutrality protections is currently before the D.C. Circuit in the case captioned as, Mozilla v. FCC. Briefs by petitioners...

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