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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...
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ARL Awarded Sloan Grant to Help Preserve Software, Save Cultural Record, Advance Discovery
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a $315,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and disseminate a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use...
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Section 108 of Title 17: A Discussion Document of the Register of Copyrights
The Copyright Office released this Discussion Document regarding Section 108 of Title 17, with an objective to review the issues, outline the Copyright Office's current views and proposals, and present...
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Advocacy and Public Policy Update—September 2017
An update of key advocacy and public policy issues of interest to the research library community in Canada and in the US from May 20, 2017, through September 22, 2017,...
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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...
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Issue Briefs Advise Libraries on Archiving Government Information, Licensing Metadata about Scholarship
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released two issue briefs answering pressing questions about copyright faced by libraries and archives: Can institutions legally preserve and share government information from...
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Issue Brief: Using Fair Use to Preserve and Share Disappearing Government Information
Access to government information is a fundamental principle in a democratic society. Particularly in the digital environment, government information is a driver for economic and social progress as well as...
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Issue Brief: Metadata and Copyright—Should Institutions License Their Data about Scholarship?
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is committed to promoting open scholarship, including making metadata—foundational information about scholarly works—as widely available as possible. Allowing the broadest access to and reuse...
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Marrakesh Treaty
The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled is a WIPO-based treaty adopted in June 2013. The treaty...
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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...