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Hi all, Lots of news this month on the public policy front! -Alex PPCA/NA v. 1 n. 4 September 2015 Copyright * Mai-Duc, Christine. "All the 'Happy Birthday' song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules"<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html> LA Times. 22 September 2015. * Save the Date! Fair Use Week 2016: February 22-26, 2016<http://fairuseweek.org/save-the-date-fair-use-week-2016-february-22-26-2016/>. Fair Use Week blog. 16 September, 2015. * Dancing Baby ruling says DMCA take-downs must take fair use into account: o Sarmiento, Sergio. "Dancing Baby Brings Good News to Appropriators."<http://clancco.com/wp/2015/09/dancing-baby-brings-good-news-to-appropriators/> Clancco. 17 September, 2015 o Smith, Keven. "Ignore fair Use at your peril."<http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/09/14/ignore-fair-use-at-your-peril/> Scholarly Communications @ Duke. 14 September 2015 Funding * Funding the Arts with Creative Partners, http://www.artsmarketing.org/resources/article/2015-09/funding-arts-creative-partners * IMLS Focus Conference, https://www.imls.gov/issues/national-initiatives/imls-focus * Funding Opportunities for Libraries and Archives this Fall, https://www.imls.gov/news-events/upnext-blog/2015/09/funding-opportunities-libraries-and-archives-fall Image Rights * Beer, Emma. "Television, film, broadcasting - where are the open collections?"<*%09http:/openglam.org/2015/09/10/television-film-broadcasting-where-are-the-open-collections/#sthash.t1Qd7UmT.dpuf> OpenGLAM Blog. 10 September 2015. * Harrison, Nate. "What is Transformative?"<http://theenemyreader.org/what-is-transformative/> The Enemy * Katz v. Google ruling upholds fair use of unflattering photograph in a win for free speech. o Goldman, Eric. "You Can't Buy A Copyright, Just To Bury It"<http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2015/09/21/you-cant-buy-a-copyright-just-to-bury-it/> Forbes. 21 September 2015. o Smith, Kevin. "Photography, Fair Use and Free Speech.<http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/09/23/photography-fair-use-and-free-speech/>" Scholarly Communications @ Duke 23 September 2015. Intellectual Freedom, Access to Information - Sara DeWaay * Werbel, Amy. "For Our Free Speech, We Have Censors to Thank."<*%09http:/chronicle.com/article/For-Our-Free-Speech-We-Have/233059/> The Chronicle of Higher Education. 14 September 2015. * Smith, Michelle. "Sex and Other Reasons Why We Ban Books for Young People."<https://theconversation.com/sex-and-other-reasons-why-we-ban-books-for-young-people-47514> The Conversation. 14 September 2015. Open Access * "Open Library of the Humanities Launches"<https://about.openlibhums.org/2015/09/28/olh-launches/> OLH Blog. 28 September 2015. Privacy * Robinson, Michael. "New Privacy Guidelines Encourage Libraries and Vendors to Work Together to Protect Reader Privacy."<http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=5522> OIF Blog. 4 August, 2015. * Reuters. "EU-U.S. Data-Sharing Faces Major Challenge in EU Court<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/09/21/technology/21reuters-ireland-eu-privacy.html>." The New York Times. 21 September 2015. * Such, Jose. "The Internet Hasn't Killed Privacy - But It Has Changed It Forever."<https://theconversation.com/the-internet-hasnt-killed-privacy-but-it-has-changed-it-forever-47220> The Conversation. 17 September 2015. * "ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom Announces Sponsorship of Let's Encrypt Initiative."<http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=5536> 15 September, 2015. Technology and Telecommunications * On August 27th, the National Information Standards Organization opened registration for the NISO's Fall Forum on the Future of Discovery to Engage Community and Set Priorities<http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=2a560b062f4f4963e5dec4f5a6713b6c84d48f8d>, being held October 5-6, 2015, in Baltimore, MD. This meeting will engage the library and vendor community in discussions that will be used to set future standardization priorities in the discovery landscape. * Kleinman, Zoe. "Vintage Tech Goes Under the Hammer<http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34313005>." BBC News. 21 September 2015. * "Syria: Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband.<http://www.budde.com.au/Research/Syria-Telecoms-Mobile-and-Broadband.html> "BuddeComm. 11 August 2015. This issue compiled by: Sara DeWaay Alexander Watkins Mary Wassermann Caley Cannon Alexander Watkins Assistant Professor | Art & Architecture Librarian University of Colorado Boulder [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 303-492-3966 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~