The fate of the US Copyright Office is far from certain. This is what we know: In October 2016, Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante resigned from her position, and ...

The first public module within the Library of Congress’ new Enterprise Copyright System launched Aug. 1 and lays the foundation for future components intended to ...

The American Library Association (ALA) and libraries had two great wins on the copyright front in late September—the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act and the Music Modernization Act. But we are ...

In the recently released Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research the application of Fair Use is encouraged ...

This module explores the basic concepts of copyright law. It provides a general introduction to the elements of copyright important to librarians. Other modules will discuss these topics in detail. “I ...

Today, the Library of Congress is the biggest library in the world, holding more than 38 million books, 70 million manuscripts, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million ...

The question of non-human authorship was, until very recently, something of an edge case for the U.S. Copyright Office, housed at the Library of Congress. No more ...

In a short policy paper released this week, the American Library Association is pushing back against a key talking point in the recent bid to make the Register of ...

I hear that we are now short one Librarian of Congress and one Register of Copyrights. What gives? Signed, Alarmed Constitutional Scholar Dear ACS: On May 8, 2025 ...

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