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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” LA Times. 22 September 2015.

·         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.” Clancco. 17 September, 2015

o   Smith, Keven. “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?” OpenGLAM Blog. 10 September 2015.

·         Harrison, Nate. “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” Forbes. 21 September 2015.

o   Smith, Kevin. “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." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 14 September 2015. 
• Smith, Michelle. "Sex and Other Reasons Why We Ban Books for Young People." The Conversation. 14 September 2015. 

 

Open Access

·         “Open Library of the Humanities Launches” OLH Blog. 28 September 2015.

 

Privacy

·         Robinson, Michael. "New Privacy Guidelines Encourage Libraries and Vendors to Work Together to Protect Reader Privacy." OIF Blog. 4 August, 2015. 

• Reuters. "EU-U.S. Data-Sharing Faces Major Challenge in EU Court." The New York Times. 21 September 2015. 
• Such, Jose. "The Internet Hasn't Killed Privacy - But It Has Changed It Forever." The Conversation. 17 September 2015. 
• "ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom Announces Sponsorship of Let's Encrypt Initiative." 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, 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.” BBC News. 21 September 2015.

·         “Syria: Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband. “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

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