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What If We Asked the Librarians? Or, How The Librarians’ Code Is Different
Today, with help from our partners at the Center for Social Media at American University, and the Law School at AU, and with support from a grant from The Andrew...
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Libraries: Let Profs and Film Students Continue to Rip DVDs
In a rich submission to the Copyright Office on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance, Jonathan Band asks the Office to renew its rule allowing college professors and film and...
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Thoughts on the Copyright Office’s Priorities for 2011-2013
The Copyright Office (CO) announced its priorities for the next two years yesterday, including several items of interest to research libraries. This blog post will walk through some of the...
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A Copyright Victory: Video Vendor Case Dismissed!
It seems like all we hear these days in library-land is bad news on the copyright front. That makes yesterday’s decision from the federal court hearing AIME et al. v....
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About those orphans
In the days since they filed a wide-ranging lawsuit against research libraries over their collaboration with Google and the nascent Orphan Works Project, the Authors Guild has dropped several clever...
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Library Copyright Alliance Statement re: Authors Guild et al. v. Hathi Trust et al.
We are deeply disappointed by the Authors Guild’s decision to file a lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. Hathitrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners. The...
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ARL Releases “Resource Packet On Orphan Works: Legal And Policy Issues For Research Libraries”
View or download the PDF HERE. Late yesterday the Association of Research Libraries released a Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries. Prepared by Prudence...
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Second Circuit Makes the First Sale Situation Worse for Libraries
Guest post by Jonathan Band, policybandwidth. The Second Circuit yesterday issued a decision concerning the first sale doctrine that is even worse for libraries than the Costco decision. The issue...
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Google and Walmart – Wait, what?
In a new filing this week, one of the objectors to the Google Books settlement raised the spectre of the recent Supreme Court decision barring an epic class action sex...
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How Many Times Must Libraries Pay for the Same Coffee, er, Content?
In a recent “Soapbox” column for Publishers Weekly, Tom Allen of the Association of American Publishers seems to suggest that the academic publishing ecosystem may suffer grave harm due to...