Hi All,

Here's this month's public policy news!

PPC/NA v. 1 n. 2 July 2015:

Copyright

• Cox, Krista. "ARL Joins Amicus Brief in Mavrix Photographs v. LiveJournal" ARL Policy Notes, 30 June 2015 http://policynotes.arl.org/?p=1115
• Artists object to their work being adapted without their permission. But can they show that the fixed expression of their work and not just the unprotected idea that was used?
  • Rhodes, Margaret. "Brooklyn Artist Says Starbucks Ripped Off Her Paintings." Wired, 1 July 2015. http://www.wired.com/2015/07/maya-hayuk-starbucks/
  • Fiorillo, Victor. "Dutch Rubber Duck Artist Cries Foul Over Giant Philly Rubber Duck."  Philadelphia Magazine. 2 June 2015 http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/06/02/philadelphia-rubber-duck-dutch-artist/
    
  • ​Older article on idea vs expression and advertising borrowing from artists: Fineman, M. (2008, July 13). The image is familiar; the pitch isn’t. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/arts/design/13fine.html

Funding

• IMLS Announces Grants of $2.4 Million for U.S. Museums, http://www.imls.gov/imls_announces_grants_of_2.4_million_for_us_museums.aspx
• New Funding and Resources for Creative Placemaking, http://arts.gov/news/2015/new-funding-and-resources-creative-placemaking
  
• Trapp, Rodney. "The Creative Social Enterprise: An Impact Investment." GIA Reader, 26.2 (Summer 2015). Web. http://www.giarts.org/article/creative-social-enterprise-impact-investment

Image Rights & Fair Use 

• Freedom of Panorama is saved in the EU, but not extended to all member countries:
  • Vollmer, Timothy, "Will the European Parliment Criminalize Street Photography?" Commons Blog, 7 July 2015.http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45698
  • Cheesman, Chris. "European Parliament rejects ‘absurd’ EU plan to axe Freedom of Panorama" Amateur Photographer, 9 July 2015.
    http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/european-parliament-rejects-absurd-eu-plan-to-axe-freedom-of-panorama-55708#MHIQQkpyYoT44pE1.99

Intellectual Freedom, Access to Information

• Thompson, Rhema. “Petition to ban new books prompts new debate on censorship in Duval County.” The Florida Times-Union. 20 July 2015.http://jacksonville.com/news/schools/2015-07-18/story/petition-ban-new-books-prompts-new-debate-censorship-duval-county
  
• Office for Intellectual Freedom. "On Data and Confidentiality." OIF Blog. 23 June 2015. http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=5489

Open Access

• Duke University Social Science Research Institute. "Do MOOCs Reach the Educationally Underserved?" Duke SSRI News.  29 June 2015.https://ssri.duke.edu/news/do-moocs-reach-educationally-underserved
  
• Feltman, Rachel. "Speaking of Science: ‘Fraudulent’ Peer Review Strikes Another Academic Publisher; 32 Articles Questioned." The Washington Post. 8 July 2015. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/08/fraudulent-peer-review-strikes-another-academic-publisher-32-articles-questioned/
• Jump, Paul.  "Elsevier Journal Editors ‘May be Asked to Resign’ in Open Access Row: Institutions Pressure Elsevier to Permit all Dutch Papers to be Freely Available Online by 2024" Times Higher Education. 3 July 2015. https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/elsevier-journal-editors-%E2%80%98may-be-asked-resign%E2%80%99-open-access-row
  
• McKenzie-Murray, Martin. "The Battle for Open-Access Information." The Saturday Paper. 4 July 2015. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2015/07/04/the-battle-open-access-information/14359320002073
  
  

Privacy

• Temple-Raston, Dina. "FBI Director Says Agents Need Access To Encrypted Data To Preserve Public Safety." The Two-Way: Breaking News from NPR. 8 July 2015. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/08/421251662/fbi-director-says-agents-need-access-to-encrypted-data-to-preserve-public-safety
• Nowogrodzki, Anna. "Ancestry Moves Further into Consumer Genetics." MIT Technology Review. 16 July 2015. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539321/ancestry-moves-further-into-consumer-genetics/
• Singer, Natasha, and Jeremy B. Merrill. "When a Company Is Put Up for Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too." The New York Times. 28 June 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/technology/when-a-company-goes-up-for-sale-in-many-cases-so-does-your-personal-data.html?ref=topics&_r=3
  
• Martin, Rachel. "More Than A Quarter-Million Ask Google To Be Forgotten." NPR: Weekend Edition Sunday. 19 July 2015. http://www.npr.org/2015/07/19/424341962/more-than-a-quarter-million-ask-google-to-be-forgotten
• Ramzy, Austin. "What You Need to Know About China's Draft Cybersecurity Law." The New York Times. 9 July 2015. http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-draft-cybersecurity-law/

Technology and telecommunications

• Connecting the Past: Digital History and Linked Open Data at DHSI 2015 (posting from attendee of Digital Humanities Summer Institute) http://ach.org/2015/07/21/connecting-the-past-digital-history-and-linked-open-data-at-dhsi-2015/
• Parker Higgins. "What Do We Want From the Next Librarian of Congress."The Electronic Freedom Foundation, 23 July 2015.   https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/what-do-we-want-next-librarian-congress
  
  
  

Compiled by Public Policy Committee members:
Alexander Watkins, Chair
Caley Cannon
Sarah DeWaay
Daniel Payne
Mary Wassermann