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Membership Meeting 2012 (Spring): Phase Three: The Code of Best Practices Hits the Road
Proceedings of the 160th ARL Membership Meeting, May 2012. mm12sp-butler.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries is a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and...
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Library Associations File Brief in Defense of Fair Use
Last Friday, the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries filed a friend of the court brief to defend the fair...
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LCA Files Amicus Brief in Author’s Guild vs. HathiTrust
On April 20, 2012, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed a friend of the court brief to defend the fair use rights of libraries. The libraries' brief was...
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LCA Files Amicus Brief in Author’s Guild vs. HathiTrust
In their motion for partial judgment on the pleadings, Plaintiffs in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust advance a radical and unprecedented interpretation of 17 U.S.C. § 108 that threatens the most routine...
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The Librarians’ Code, Orphan Works, and Mass Digitization
In preparation for the Berkeley symposium on orphan works and mass digitization, I thought it might be helpful to sketch some of the ways that the Code of Best Practices...
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Fair Use on the Orphan Map
I was excited to see Berkeley Digital Library Fellow David Hansen’s latest white paper, Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces hit the Internets recently. It’s not a coincidence that...
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Why Best Practices in Fair Use? A Compendium of Key Articles
fair-use-code-key-articles.pdf
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Should Libraries Fret Over Mischievous Users?
In the process of developing the Code of Best Practices in Fair use for Academic and Research Libraries, there was one worry that we encountered over and over again, and...
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: FAQ for Librarians/General Overview
fair-use-code-faq-libs.pdf