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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today, September 21, 2020, that she has named Shira Perlmutter register of copyrights and director of the US Copyright Office, effective in late October. The Library Copyright Alliance congratulates Perlmutter on her appointment and looks forward to working with her. Perlmutter is currently the chief policy officer and director for international affairs at the...

On Marh 17, 2020, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) posted an update on the Georgia State E-Reserves Litigation. U.S. District Court Judge Evans determined that 37 of the alleged 48 infringements were fair uses.

On February 5, 2019, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and LCA submitted comments in response to NIST’s draft Green Paper, expressing concern that section E recommends making government-produced software copyrightable.

On December 21, 2018, Jonathan Band distributed an article on the implications of Capitol Records v. ReDigi based on the ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

On April 10, 2015, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) signed onto a letter to the US International Trade Commission urging the Commission to reconsider its position of authority on pure data transmissions.

On February 21, 2015, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted a statement to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding net neutrality and an open internet for a hearing on protecting the internet and consumers.

On January 22, 2015, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) sent a letter to members of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The letter emphasized that libraries of all types depend on the open Internet and a balanced copyright system to carry out their missions and protect free speech.

On October 27, 2014, Jonathan Band, counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance, wrote a letter in response to Stephen Colbert’s criticism of an amicus brief filed in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley.

On April 2, 2013, Jonathan Band, on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), published an issue brief on the impact on libraries in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley case.

On February 15, 2013, the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, published a white paper on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA). The paper, “How Flexibility Supports the Goals of Copyright Law: Fair Use and the US Library Experience,” was created for discussion at the 2nd Global Congress on Intellectual Property and...