-
We’re All Fair Users Now
Today kicks off Fair Use Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrine of fair use/fair dealing. Previously, ARL has debunked common fair use myths, and reviewed the fundamentals of...
-
Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 to Be Celebrated February 22–26
Mark your calendars! Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021—an annual international celebration of these important copyright doctrines—will take place Monday–Friday, February 22–26. You can participate on a single day during the...
-
Why We Celebrate Public Domain Day
Have you ever seen an eighth-grade production of Romeo and Juliet? You may be interested to know that classroom productions would not be possible to put on in a cost-effective...
-
Text and Data Mining Exemption to Digital Millennium Copyright Act Would Advance Knowledge of Diverse Works
This week, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), as a member of the Library Copyright Alliance, joined the Authors Alliance and the American Association of University Professors in submitting a...
-
Sovereign Immunity Boondoggle at the US Copyright Office
State sovereign immunity—the immunity of states from being sued in federal courts—is a doctrine with a long history and lots of recent controversies. This form of immunity from lawsuit has...
-
Shira Perlmutter Appointed US Register of Copyrights
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that she has named Shira Perlmutter register of copyrights and director of the US Copyright Office, effective in late October. The Library Copyright...
-
White Paper Encourages Libraries to Reevaluate Use of CONTU Guidelines in Interlibrary Loan
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new ARL white paper: Modern Interlibrary Loan Practices: Moving beyond the CONTU Guidelines. The spoiler is in the subtitle, “Moving beyond...
-
Modern Interlibrary Loan Practices: Moving beyond the CONTU Guidelines
This ARL white paper reexamines the role of the decades-old Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) Guidelines in interlibrary lending. The white paper includes the history and...
-
Controlled Digital Lending Briefing (Invitation Only)
Brewster Kahle and Chris Freeland of the Internet Archive and Michelle Wu formerly of Georgetown Law Library will join us on Friday, July 31 at 1:00 ET for a member-only...
-
Association of Research Libraries Signs Statement in Support of Controlled Digital Lending
Today the Association of Research Libraries signed the “Position Statement on Controlled Digital Lending.” Libraries use controlled digital lending (CDL) to circulate temporary digital copies of print books they own...