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Salon.com August 31, 2001 Damien Cave	Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics...
PC World November 19, 2002 Michelle Madigan	Copy Control Complaint Desk Opens Formal public comment on DMCA invited for one month, then feds will reconsider act.
PC World January 8, 2003 Grant Gross	Bill Would Allow Copying of Music, Movies Digital Media Consumer Rights Acts would permit consumers to break the copy controls on CDs and DVDs to make personal copies.
Information Today October 20, 2003 George H. Pike	Database Protection Legislation Introduced in Congress On Oct. 8, 2003, the ongoing debate over the need for database protection returned to the floor of Congress with the introduction of House Bill 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act.
PC World August 31, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Will Copyright Law Kill Your Computing Habits? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act faces scrutiny and its first cases--including Sklyarov's prosecution.
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Information Today May 19, 2011	Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Copyright Reform Libraries have always advocated for reasonable copyright policy -- in the courts as well as in the U.S. Congress.
Information Today July 17, 2008	New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has issued a joint report on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation.
Information Today March 25, 2013 George H. Pike	A 'Total Victory' for the First Sale Doctrine from the Supreme Court In a powerful and conclusive opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that copyright's First Sale doctrine applies to all legal copyrighted works regardless of where they are manufactured.
Information Today September 12, 2011 George H. Pike	Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws.
InternetNews February 28, 2007 Roy Mark	Fair Use Bill Would Unlock DMCA New legislation would allow consumers to make digital copies for home networks.
InternetNews April 14, 2006 David Miller	Report Details DMCA Misuses A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation takes aim at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial law enacted seven years ago to protect intellectual property in the digital age.
Searcher January 2004 Carol Ebbinghouse	If at First You Don't Succeed, Stop! Proposed legislation to set up new intellectual property right in facts themselves
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.
InternetNews June 22, 2004 Roy Mark	Fair Use Bill Gains New Momentum House Energy and Commerce chairman endorses bill to expand consumer rights under the DMCA.
Information Today April 10, 2008 George H. Pike	Section 108 Study Group Releases Report A panel of government, academic, and information industry experts formed to study the copyright challenges faced by libraries and archives in managing and preserving digital content recommends changes to the U.S. Copyright Act.
InternetNews November 17, 2005 Roy Mark	'Fair Use' Becomes Fair Game in House U.S. lawmakers struggle to balance consumer rights with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Search Engine Watch September 26, 2007 Grant Crowell	Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 1) Most online copyright infringement issues are best handled by being diplomatic and professional, and can be handled with some simple legal procedures.
T.H.E. Journal October 2003	Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom
InternetNews September 29, 2004 Roy Mark	House Toughens Penalties on P2Ps Bill calls for criminal penalties of up to five years for willfully distributing copyrighted works.
Information Today January 5, 2016 George H. Pike	The Year in Congress: Accomplishments in 2015 A review is offered of new laws that affect the library community and the information industry.
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block	How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2005 Rich Duprey	Google Searches the Classics Search engine's ambitious plans to digitize the works of three libraries raises copyright worries.
Information Today November 2001 Stephanie C. Ardito	Legal Issues - The Case of Dmitry Sklyarov Some of us who regularly write about intellectual property issues jokingly refer to publishers as the "copyright police," and contemplate being thrown into "copyright jail" for "violating" fair-use laws. Now a civilian is being tried by the U.S. government for such a "crime"...
InternetNews January 5, 2005 Roy Mark	Court Rejects DMCA Subpoena Process ... Again Decision upholds earlier ruling that music industry must use traditional subpoenas in P2P legal wars.
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Gerit Quealy	All's Fair in Fair Use? The Viacom/Google-YouTube copyright skirmish could be the latest in a string of lawsuits desperately attempting to clarify what constitutes fair use.
Information Today February 2006 K. Matthew Dames	Intellectual Property: Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship.
Searcher July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane	Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever.
Information Today November 14, 2011	IFLA Launches New Webpages on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions Copyright exceptions enable libraries to preserve and make available works. In many countries they have been established in the print era and not been updated to meet the needs of the digital age.
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.
Searcher May 2003 Carol Ebbinghouse	Big Brother Invades the Campus and Workplace: Infotainment and the Copyright Cops The leading entertainment organizations have now begun targeting colleges and universities, as well as corporate America.
Information Today January 20, 2003 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years.
InternetNews December 19, 2003 Roy Mark	ISPs Win a Round in File-Swapping Tussle In a major blow to the music industry's campaign to sue individual file-swappers, court sides with Internet service providers over revealing customers' identities.
Information Today June 23, 2015 Corilee Christou	Finding a Librarian of Congress for the Digital Age It's time to move on and finally hire, first and foremost, a Librarian of Congress with the appropriate library degree and experience.
Search Engine Watch September 27, 2007 Grant Crowell	Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 2) Addressing copyright infringement issues can be a tricky business. Take the time to plan out your approach so you can get through it quickly and easily.
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects.
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do?
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Damien Cave	DeCSS judge: Code isn't free speech MPAA president Jack Valenti cheers the decision. Next stop: Appeals court.
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.
D-Lib June 2006	Orphan Works Reasonable people may disagree about how the problem of orphan works should be resolved, but it is inarguable that a solution should be found.
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala	The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective.
PC World April 2003 Dylan F. Tweney	Now They're After You: Music Cops Target Users Recording industry expands focus and guns for file traders.
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman	Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.
T.H.E. Journal March 25, 2010 Natasha Wanchek	Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally.
PC World December 17, 2002 Matt Berger	Verdict Delivers Blow to the DMCA Jury finds ElcomSoft not guilty, a ruling seen as a setback for enforcing the controversial digital copyright law.
InternetNews May 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Fair Use Faltering Satellite radio plans for a handheld that records broadcasts has Hollywood in a dither.
D-Lib March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir	The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified.
D-Lib October 2001 Brewster Kahle	Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world...