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Library Copyright Institute
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A project to develop a program of systematic, deep instruction in copyright law for librarians.

http://library.copyright.institute/
Don't forget to join OCEAN tomorrow (Friday, February 7) to learn how to manage the preservation and access of collections that pose both ethical issues and copyright and related interests, such as traditional knowledge. More info below:

www.oceancopyright.org/event-detail...
Cultural Heritage/Ethics and Intellectual Property - Extended Workshop | OCEAN
OCEAN Workshop - Feb. 7, 2025 Join OCEAN to learn how to manage the preservation and access of collections that pose both ethical issues and copyright and related interests, such as traditional know...
www.oceancopyright.org
February 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Excited to share that many of our past webinar recordings, slides, hypotheticals, and other guides are now available via the Carolina Digital Repository: cdr.lib.unc.edu/collections/...
Library Copyright Institute Resources // Carolina Digital RepositoryListMasonrySlideshow
The inaugural Library Copyright Institute was hosted from July 24-26, 2019 at NC State University’s James B. Hunt Memorial Library. Since then, we have actively worked...
cdr.lib.unc.edu
January 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Happy #PublicDomainDay 2025!⁠ It's the day at the start of each year on which works enter the #publicdomain. See our highlights — featuring Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and others — here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01...
January 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Miss one of our thought-provoking book talks with Authors Alliance (@authorsalliance.bsky.social) this year? Don’t worry—we’ve put them all together in a year-end recap, complete with session recordings.

Catch up here 👉️ blog.archive.org/2024/12/17/r...
December 17, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Looking for a deeper dive into how copyright law affects specific functions and areas of libraries, such as Interlibrary Loan, course reserves, or text data mining? We're adding our deep dive workshop recordings to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/@lib...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Happening TODAY at 12pm ET/9am PT! Join this FREE Open Copyright Education Advisory Network webinar today for its semi-annual litigation update. Featuring our very own Yuanxiao Xu speaking about Keck v. Mix Creative and Stability v. Anderson:

miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Litigation Update. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
It's back! Our much anticipated and very well attended bi-annual litigation update. Come here a panel of experts examine the latest case law that may impact how you preserve and provide access to co...
miamioh.zoom.us
December 6, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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We're super pleased to announce today a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to address many of the challenges we've associated with AI training and books:

"Developing a public interest training commons of books"

Read more: www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...
Developing a public-interest training commons of books
Photo by Zetong Li on Unsplash Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable plan for a public-interest book training commons f…
www.authorsalliance.org
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Our most recent webinar, "What's up with CDL after the Hachette decision?", is available to stream via ASERL's webinar archive: t.co/WRgijQvBOV
https://www.aserl.org/event/whats-up-with-controlled-digital-lending-cdl-after-the-hachette-decision/
t.co
December 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...

(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
December 1, 2024 at 5:11 PM