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LCA Submits Comments to Copyright Office Regarding Orphan Works NOI
On January 14, 2013, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted comments to the US Copyright Office in response to their Notice of Inquiry regarding orphan works and mass digitization. In...
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LCA Submits Comments to US Copyright Office Regarding Orphan Works NOI
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) today filed comments (PDF) with the US Copyright Office in response to their October 22, 2012, Notice of Inquiry (NOI) about the current state of play with...
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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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Golan v. Holder Decision Summary
On January 13, 2012, the Supreme Court by a 6-2 vote affirmed the Tenth Circuit decision in Golan v. Holder. The case concerned the constitutionality of the Uruguay Round Agreements...
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Thoughts on the Copyright Office’s Priorities for 2011-2013
The Copyright Office (CO) announced its priorities for the next two years yesterday, including several items of interest to research libraries. This blog post will walk through some of the...
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Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
There is long-standing interest in identifying orphan works, books that are subject to copyright but whose copyright holders cannot be identified or contacted. Orphan works comprise a significant percentage of...
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