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Infographic Shows How Fair Use Helps in Saving Software
*Cross-posted from ARL News* This week is Fair Use Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities...
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Oral Arguments in Mozilla v. FCC
On February 1, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments in Mozilla v. FCC, the case challenging the FCC’s decision to abandon its order protecting...
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Celebrating New Works Entering the Public Domain in the United States
On January 1, 2019, the United States saw a mass number of new published works enter the public domain for the first time in twenty years. After the enactment of...
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The Implications of the ReDigi Decision for Libraries
*Guest blog post by Jonathan Band, Counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance, which consists of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research...
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ARL Files Comments in NTIA Request for Comment on Consumer Privacy
On Friday, November 9, ARL filed comments responding to National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) request for comment on "Developing the Administration's Approach to Consumer Privacy." In the submitted comments,...
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Report from AAU-APLU Workshop on Accelerating Access to Research Data
*This is a guest blog post by Mary Lee Kennedy, Executive Director of ARL; Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Strategic Initiatives; and Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Head Digital Scholarship and Data Services, Penn...
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ARL Celebrates Open Access Week with Commitment to Open Scholarship
*This is a guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, ARL program director for strategic initiatives.* ARL’s mission is to catalyze the collective efforts of research libraries to enable knowledge creation and...
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Eleventh Circuit Reverses and Remands Georgia State E-Reserves Case (Again)
The long saga of the Georgia State University (GSU) e-reserves case continues as the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court’s ruling which had found that...
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Eleventh Circuit Finds Georgia’s Annotated State Laws Not Copyrightable
On Friday, October 19, the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that Georgia’s annotated laws are not protected by copyright, reversing the district court. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org,...
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What’s In (and Out) of the IP Chapter of the United States, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement
Yesterday, Canada announced—just in time for the self-imposed deadline by the negotiating parties of September 30— that it would join the trade agreement with the United States and Mexico. This...