PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY UPDATES
Please join the Unite Against Book Bans if you haven't yet done so. It is easy to do. Tell your friends!
https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1535285410988965889
White House Update: FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Announces Operational Plan for COVID-19 Vaccinations for Children Under 5. References the ALA initiative.
https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1534993489632567296
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/09/fact-sheetbiden-administration-announces-operational-plan-for-covid-19-vaccinations-for-children-under-5/
ALA is a premier partner for National Voter Registration Day.
https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1532131633880604674
New paper on the creation of a Digital Equity Foundation from the Airwaves for Equity coalition, of which ALA is a founding partner.
https://twitter.com/Airwaves4Equity/status/1529463867533070337
Ron Charles of the Washington Post's Book Club opines on the library digital book issue.
https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1538577956485971969
ALA is part of an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Warhol v. Goldsmith regarding fair use
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-869/228252/20220617095802802_21-869_Amici%20Brief.pdf
ALA is part of an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appears for the D.C. Circuit on Valancourt Books v. Merrick Garland regarding the deposit system at the Library of Congress.
https://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Brief-of-Amici-Library-Associations.pdf
As part of the Library Copyright Alliance, ALA submits comments to the U.S. Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry concerning standard technical measures and section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).
https://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Copyright-Office-NOI-re-STM-Final.pdf
On the U.S. Copyright Office Publishers Protection Report: "a link tax or other ancillary copyright protections are not necessary, effective or constitutional." ALA is a founding member of the Re:Create Copyright Coalition
https://twitter.com/recreateco/status/1542581012315738112
https://www.recreatecoalition.org/recreate-statement-on-copyright-office-publishers-protections-report/
NEWS, ARTICLES, RESOURCES
A ReadersFirst Position Paper: "Elending Legislation"
https://www.readersfirst.org/news/2022/6/21/a-readersfirst-position-paper-elending-legislation
Some librarians and library users may have an interest too... (Reuters: Fed judiciary says yes to free PACER searches.)
https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1536074114288562176
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/fed-judiciary-says-yes-free-pacer-searches-here-are-details-so-far-2022-05-31/
Alan S. Inouye, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Relations and Interim Associate Executive Director
American Library Association
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