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Software Preservation Best Practices in Fair Use to Help Safeguard Cultural Record, Advance Research
*Cross-posted from ARL News* *Edited to add links to blog posts by Patricia Aufderheide and Brandon Butler* The new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation provides clear guidance...
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Documentary “Paywall: The Business of Scholarship” Premieres in Washington, DC
*This is a guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, ARL program director for strategic initiatives.* *Updated September 11, 2018, with quotation from Geneva Henry.* The documentary film Paywall: The Business of...
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Government Petitioners’ Brief Points Out Verizon Throttling of Fire Department Battling Largest Fire in California History
On August 20, 2017, petitioners challenging the FCC’s abandonment of net neutrality protections in Mozilla v. FCC filed their initial briefs. Coverage of Mozilla’s joint brief with other non-government petitioners...
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Mozilla, Internet Companies, Public Interest Groups and Other Petitioners File Brief in Net Neutrality Case
The litigation around the FCC’s decision in 2017 to abandon net neutrality protections is currently before the D.C. Circuit in the case captioned as, Mozilla v. FCC. Briefs by petitioners...
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Richard Poynder Interview with UCLA University Librarian Ginny Steel on Open Access
A couple of weeks ago, Richard Poynder interviewed Virginia (“Ginny”) Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian at UCLA on open access. Ginny Steel is also the past chair of...
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Designing Open Science in a Decentralized World
*This is a guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, ARL Program Director for Strategic Initiatives* In my past and current roles as a program officer in a regional library consortium,...
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ARL Urges US House of Representatives to Restore Net Neutrality
*Cross-posted from ARL News* The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is profoundly disappointed with the US Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) repeal of the Open Internet Order, which takes effect today,...
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Marrakesh Treaty Unanimously Supported by U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees
The United States is moving closer toward ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled (Marrakesh...
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In Vote to Restore Net Neutrality Rules, Several Senators Note Importance of Open Internet for Research, Education and Equity
Today, May 16, 2018, the US Senate voted 52-47 to reverse the FCC's decision that would eviscerate protections for net neutrality. The Senate used a procedure known as the Congressional Review...
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#RedAlert: One More Vote Needed in the Senate to Save #NetNeutrality
In mid-December 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to reverse the strong net neutrality protections that had been put into place by the 2015 Open Internet Order. Since that...