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UC Boulder Takes VHS Tapes Back to the Future With the #Librarianscode
This is the first blog post in a series highlighting some of the fair use success stories we’re beginning to hear from librarians using the Code to move past fear...
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The #Librarianscode Comes to Life at UCLA, UC Berkeley, U. of Florida, Texas A&M, and Yale
Today we are very happy to debut a collection of videos with directors of ARL member libraries talking about how the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic...
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LCA Files Amicus Brief Supporting Defendent—Appellant and Reversal in Authors Guild v. Google
On November 16, 2012, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed an amicus brief in support of defendant-appellant and reversal in the Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., case being...
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Report of the ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disabilities (Nov. 2, 2012)
Research libraries have a responsibility to make library collections and services universally accessible to their patrons. And as research libraries provide more content electronically to students, faculty members, researchers, and...
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Justices Consider the Horribles in Kirtsaeng
On Monday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, a case in which the key issue is the proper scope of the...
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Good News for Libraries in Latest Round of DMCA Exceptions
Last Friday the Librarian of Congress officially issued the latest iteration of rules (here) describing exceptions to the general rule in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that it is...
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Lessons From the Siege
At last year’s Fall Membership Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries here in Washington, D.C., the refrain was, “libraries are under siege.” Copyright litigation against libraries was proceeding on...
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ARL Issue Brief: MOOCs + Libraries = ???
Research libraries have a stake in MOOCs - who owns the course content, what kinds of materials are incorporated into the virtual classroom and assigned for outside reading, what happens...
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Issue Brief: Massive Open Online Courses – Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries (Oct. 22, 2012)
The advent of Massive Open Online Courses raises serious legal questions that in turn pose important and fundamental policy challenges for research libraries. As universities rush to find ways to...
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Judge Baer channels #librarianscode
In what can only be described as a total victory for libraries, Judge Harold Baer of the Southern District of New York held in an opinion published yesterday that the...