Hi All,

As part of the Public Policy Committee's mission to monitor public policy issues and inform the membership, we are starting a new monthly news email, the Public Policy Committee News Alerts (PPC/NA). The idea is for these emails to be conversation starters, help members keep up on public policy issues, and alert members to new developments. We hope you will all find this new service helpful. Without further ado, the news for May/June (with some older stories thrown in for our first issue):

PPC/NA May/June 2015:

Copyright

• Cox, Krista. "Copyright Office Report on Orphan Works: ARL Releases Issue Brief." 12 June 2015. http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/3642-copyright-office-report-on-orphan-works-arl-releases-issue-brief#.VX9L5M_BzGd
  
• United States Copyright Office. "Copyright office requests comments on how visual works are are monetized, enforced, and registered under the Copyright Act." 24 April 2015 http://copyright.gov/policy/visualworks/
  
• CC-BY licenses create debate: 
  
  • Farkas, Meredith. "Read your Contract: Being OA isn't enough." ​Information Wants to Be Free, 18 March 2015 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2015/03/18/read-your-contract-being-oa-isnt-enough/ 
  • Loon, Library. "CC-BY Unrest." ​Gavia Libraria, 5 April 2015. http://gavialib.com/2015/04/cc-by-unrest/ http://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/
  • For context here is an older post on CC-BY. Redhead, Claire. "Why CC-By?" 23 October 2012. http://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/

Funding

• “IMLS Funding Passes First Hurdle.” American Alliance of Museums. 19 June 2015. Web. http://t.congressweb.com/w/?STISCZOUMP
  
• National Endowment for the Arts. “2015 Guide to the National Endowment for the Arts.” 19 June 2015. Web. http://arts.gov/publications/2015-guide-national-endowment-arts
  

Intellectual Freedom, Access to Information

• ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. "Draft - Library Privacy Guidelines for E-Book Lending and Digital Content Vendors." ALA Connect, 16 June 2015. Web. http://connect.ala.org/node/241070
  
• Damore, Meagan. "College declines student's request to ban 'Persepolis,' 'Sandman'." Comic Book Resources, 15 June 2015. Web. http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/06/crafton-hills-college-will-not-ban-persepolis-sandman-after-students-request/#more-213841
  

Open Access

• Else, Holly. "Elsevier Sharing Policy Criticised over its Open Access Credentials." Times Higher Education, 22 May 2015. Web. https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/elsevier-sharing-policy-criticised-over-its-open-access-credentials/2020406.article
  
• Haigh, Susan . "CARL Signs the Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age." Canadian Association of Research Libraries: News, 22 May 2015.  Web. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/179/201/CARL-Signs-the-Hague-Declaration-on-Knowledge-Discovery-in-the-Digital-Age.html
  
• Pearce, Katie. "JHU Press Receives Grant to Develop Open Access to Monographs." The Hub: Johns Hopkins News Network, 5 June 2015. Web. http://hub.jhu.edu/2015/06/05/project-muse-open-access

Privacy

• "The Computer Will (Literally) See You Now." On Point with Tom Ashbrook. National Public Radio. 18 June 2015. Web. http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/06/18/facial-recognition-software-technology-scan
  
• Carr, Madline. "US government clips NSA wings, but snooping is a global effort." The Conversation, 3 June 2015. Web. https://theconversation.com/us-government-clips-nsa-wings-but-snooping-is-a-global-effort-42771
  
• Fister, Barbara. "Privacy for the Public." Inside Higher Ed, 10 June 2015. Web. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/privacy-public
  
• Rubin, Alissa J. and David E. Sanger. "Familiar Swing to Security Over Privacy After Attacks in France." The New York Times, 5 May 2015. Web. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/world/europe/france-expanded-surveillance-charlie-hebdo.html?_r=0
  

Technology and telecommunications

• Open Internet Rules went into effect June 12th, 2015. Federal Communications Commission. ​​"Open Internet." https://www.fcc.gov/openinternet
  
• "Open Source Initiative May 15th Wrap-up." ​Open Source Iniative, 15 May 2015. http://opensource.org/20150515WrapUp
• European Commission. "E.U. Opens Antitrust Investigation into Amazon’s E-Book Business." ​European Commission Press Release Database, 11 June 2015. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-5166_en.htm