• Will Dicta from Impression Products v. Lexmark Lead to the Ability to Control Your Own Devices?

  Today we're celebrating Copyright Week! Today's topic is "Controlling Your Own Devices: As software-enabled devices become ubiquitous, so do onerous licensing agreements and technological restrictions. If you buy something, you should...

• The Coming Vote on Network Neutrality

    *This post was written by Christopher Libertelli and Krista Cox* It is hard to avoid the press coverage of the coming vote to reverse Obama-era Network Neutrality policies. In...

• FCC Eliminates Net Neutrality Rules

    On November 22, 2017, one day before the Thanksgiving holiday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its rule, which, if passed, will completely eliminate the net neutrality rules established...

• #OAWeek: Opening LIS Work with the LIS Scholarship Archive

  *This is a guest blog post by Vicky Steeves, the Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility at New York University. She serves on the LIS Scholarship Archive Advisory Board.*...

• Happy Open Access Week: Move FASTR

  This week, October 23-29, 2017, is International Open Access Week, a week to celebrate all things open access. While there are a number of events happening worldwide, those of us...

• What Have Rightholders Said About the Section 108 Fair Use Savings Clause?

  As the Copyright Office considers reform of Section 108, the provision of the Copyright Act that provides for specific limitations and exceptions for libraries, one of the critical considerations is...

• Thoughts on the Section 108 Reform Discussion Draft

  On Friday, September 15, 2017, the Copyright Office released a discussion document on proposed reform to Section 108 of the Copyright Act, the provision that sets out specific limitations and...

• ARL Urges FCC To Maintain Strong Net Neutrality Provisions, Submits Two Sets of Reply Comments

  Last week, ARL submitted two sets of reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the Commission to maintain strong protections for net neutrality.  ARL joined with eight other...

• DOJ Overreach in Case Demanding Information on Website Visitors Threatens First, Fourth Amendments

  On July 12, the Department of Justice has issued a request to web hosting provider, DreamHost, seeking information on visitors to a website that was used to organize protests against...

• Will This Be the Congress to Finally Pass ECPA Reform?

  Today, July 27, 2017, Senators Lee (R-UT) and Leahy (D-VT) introduced the ECPA Modernization Act of 2017, a bill to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). ECPA is a...

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