News from Our Partners at Library Futures and the Internet Archive
/Our partners at Library Futures and the Internet Archive are scheduling interesting sessions and looking for your stories.
If you’re reading this newsletter, there’s a good chance you think about copyright more than most, so join us Monday, November 15 from 12-1:15 PT!
Retired Georgetown Law professor Michelle Wu will discuss her new paper “The Corruption of Copyright” with Colorado Law’s Blake Reid, who will focus on his forthcoming paper “Copyright and Disability.”
Amanda Levendowski, Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, will moderate the panel, which is supported by Library Futures and Internet Archive.
Internet Archive needs your story
Our coalition partners at the Internet Archive are subject to legal action for their use of Controlled Digital Lending in the National Emergency Library. As part of the case, they are collecting stories from people who made use of their extensive lending library. If you are one of them, you can still submit your story until November 19. Defend the right to loan!
Welcome to the Coalition!
We are thrilled to welcome two new coalition partners: the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and American Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). UMass Amherst is old hat at resource-sharing as part of the Five College Consortium, and they’ve had a long-standing commitment to open scholarship.
Our other great partner ASERL recently endorsed the statement on Controlled Digital Lending for Interlibrary Loan and submitted comments to the Copyright Office. Don’t miss their “Future Thinking” report on Controlled Digital Lending for Research Libraries.
If you share these values and want to join the coalition, please reach out!
Promoting Balanced Copyright Globally
To fulfill our mission and to promote a balanced copyright regime worldwide, we were granted leave to intervene in an important Canadian copyright case with our colleagues at the Canadian Associations of Law Libraries.
Building equitable local news access
We are thrilled to announce our new project with our coalition partners at the Albany Public Library and the news team at Hearken to pilot better access to local news and support communities in their information seeking needs.