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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 Day 2 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. The week is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities...
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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 Day 1 Roundup
This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. The week is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities...
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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...
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Three Things You Might Not Know about Presidential Records and Transitions
The week after President Biden’s inauguration, Archivist of the United States (AOTUS) David S. Ferriero, who was hired by President Obama to transform the relationship between people and their government,...
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Digital Democracy Project Letter to President Biden on Good Government
On February 9, 2021, ARL signed on to a letter to President Biden restoring transparency and accountability in the United States government and reclaiming global leadership on democracy and human...
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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...
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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...
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Letter Requesting Withdrawal of Executive Order on “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”
On December 1, 2020, ARL signed on to a letter to the US Department of Labor requesting the withdrawal of the Executive Order on "Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping." Letter...
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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...
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Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Opposing Online Content Policy Modernization Act
On September 30, 2020, ARL joined the Re:Create coalition in sending a letter to Senator Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Feinstein, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee...