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Copyright and Contracts: Issues and Strategies
In 2020, ARL’s Advocacy and Public Policy Committee launched a digital rights initiative focused on understanding and safeguarding the full stack of research libraries’ rights: to acquire and lend digital...
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Controlled Digital Lending
This paper discusses ARL's position on controlled digital lending of library materials and lays out considerations that may support research libraries in crafting their use case and preparing for a...
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Library Copyright Alliance Welcomes New Exemptions to Section 1201
Today, the librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the register of copyrights, issued new exemptions to the prohibition on the circumvention of technological protection measures set forth in the...
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Anticompetitive Practices Reduce Diversity of Knowledge
In June, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a package of antitrust reform bills targeted at curbing anticompetitive practices in online markets. The bills followed a series of House...
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Biden’s Competition Order Advances Right-to-Repair Movement
Today, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” Among other provisions, the order aims to address anticompetitive terms imposed by manufacturers that restrict third-party...
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Maryland Is First State to Expand Equitable Access to E-books through Libraries (updated)
Final update: On February 16, a judge granted the Association of American Publishers (AAP) motion for preliminary injunction of Maryland’s law requiring publishers to offer electronic literary materials to libraries on “reasonable...