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Updates on Court Cases on President Trump’s Travel Ban
Since the last ARL Policy Notes update on the Court Cases on Trump's Travel Ban (March 16, 2017), two federal courts of appeals, the Ninth Circuit and the Fourth Circuit, have...
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Drinking our own champagne: a toast to the success of LISSA!
*This is a guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg,Program Director at the Association of Research Libraries and the co-director of SHARE. She serves on the SocArXiv Steering Committee and the...
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Fair Use Industries Contribute $2.8 Trillion to U.S. Economy
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) released an updated report on Fair Use in U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use. The report notes that fair...
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Impression Products v. Lexmark International
On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Impression Products v. Lexmark International, a case involving patent exhaustion. By an 7-1 margin, the Court...
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University of Manitoba Libraries Staff Build Indigenous Cultural Competency
by Camille Callison, Lyle Ford, and Christine Shaw, University of Manitoba Libraries Reconciliation calls for personal action. People need to get to know each other. They need to learn how...
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ARL Joins Higher Education and Library Groups to Oppose Changes to Net Neutrality Rules
On May 18, 2017, the FCC voted 2-1 to move forward with its notice of proposed rulemaking to roll back net neutrality protections that were set forth in the agency's...
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UBC’s X̱wi7x̱wa Library Decolonizes Library Practices
Systemic biases related to colonization continue to reside in Western library and archival collections and services. Materials and programs about Indigenous communities are often not prioritized and organizational systems are...
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Louisiana State University Files Suit Against Elsevier; Elsevier Has Not Accepted Service
On February 27, 2017, Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit against international science publisher Elsevier after the publisher breached its contract and refused to allow LSU’s veterinarian school faculty...
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LCA Urges Senate to Reject Bill to Make Register of Copyrights a Presidential Appointee
On April 26, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 1695, the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017, a bill to make the Register...
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The Future of Net Neutrality?
The net neutrality saga continues to unfold and it appears that threats against an open Internet may be at even greater risk today, given new leadership at the FCC and...