Statement for the Hearing on the Scope of Fair Use
On January 28, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted a statement to the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary for a hearing on the scope of fair use. In the statement, LCA describes how all types of libraries rely on fair use in order to serve their users and meet mission, how the federal government relies on...
View Post View DocumentDepartment of Commerce Green Paper Reply Comments
On January 8, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted additional comments on the US Department of Commerce “green paper,” Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy, following a public meeting held by the Commerce Department in December. The post-meeting comments focus on four issues: the recent fair use court decision in the case Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens,...
View Post View DocumentLibraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case
On November 14, 2013, after eight years of litigation, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York upheld the fair use doctrine when the court dismissed Authors Guild v. Google, a case that questioned the legality of Google’s searchable book database. The Library Copyright Alliance welcomes Judge Denny Chin’s decision to protect the search database that allows...
View Post View DocumentLCA Supports Georgia State University in Amicus Brief
On April 26, 2013, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed an amicus brief in support of Georgia State University in its case against Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications.
View Post View DocumentBerkeley Clinic Prepares Fair Use White Paper for LCA
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...
View Post View DocumentGoogle Books Litigation Family Tree by Jonathan Band
On October 11, 2012, Jonathan Band published a timeline of the Google Books litigation.
View Post View DocumentLCA Writes to Ambassador Kirk Regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
August 14, 2012 – The American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, American Association of Law Libraries, and the Special Libraries Association wrote to Ambassador Kirk in support of paragraph 2 of the US proposal for copyright exceptions and limitations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) Agreement. The language would ensure that nothing in TTP would in any direct or indirect...
View Post View DocumentARL Joins ALA, ACRL, and EFF in Amicus Brief Supporting Google Book Search
On August 1, 2012, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) joined EFF in an amicus brief in support of the Google Book Search settlement.
View Post View DocumentLCA and EFF File Second Amicus Brief in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust
On July 6, 2012, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), filed an amicus brief to reassert its position in defending the fair use rights of libraries.
View Post View DocumentLCA Files Amicus Brief in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust
On April 20, 2012, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed a friend of the court brief to defend the fair use rights of libraries. The libraries’ brief was prepared by Jonathan Band.
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