Choose from among the following: General Resources   Copyright and Intellectual Property   Government Information Issues Intellectual Freedom    Privacy Issues TEACH Act UCITA   General Resources ACRL Washington Watch ALA Washington Office ALAWON [irregular e-mail publication of the ALA Washington Office] American Association of Law Libraries Washington Affairs Online Association of Research Libraries Federal Relations & Information Policy  EDUCAUSE Policy Initiatives [policy issues on information technology in higher education] Federal Relations E-News [quarterly publication from the Association of Research Libraries] Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) Legislative Committee [good source of information on federal government information issues] NJLA Legislative Updates   Copyright and Intellectual Property General Resources | Database Protection & Digital Rights Issues | DMCA | Miscellaneous General Resources Copyright [ALA Wash. Office] Copyright and Intellectual Property [ARL] Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources [Sprague Library, Montclair State University] Copyright Guidelines, FAQs, and Rules of Thumb [Sprague Library, Montclair State University] Copyright Information (Rutgers Universities Libraries) Intellectual Property and Copyright [EDUCAUSE] Database Protection & Digital Rights Issues Database Proposals and Legislation [ARL] Digital Rights Issues [ALA Washington Office] Digital Rights Management [ARL] Digital Rights Management and Privacy [Electronic Privacy Information Center] Digital Millenium Copyright Act Comments of the Digital Future Coalition [on the first sale doctrine and the DMCA] Comments on Rulemaking on Exemptions on Anticirumvention DMCA: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act [ALA Wash. Office] The Digital Millennium Copyright Act [EDUCAUSE] Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Status and Analysis [ARL] The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Index [Digital Future Coalition] In the Curl of the Wave What the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Term Extension Act Mean for the Library and Education Community [Arnold P. Lutzker, Lutzker & Lutzker LLP] Library associations' letter about effects of DMCA on first sale Miscellaneous Copyright Term Extension [ARL] U.S. Supreme Court rules on constitutionality of Copyright Term Extension Act [ALA Wash. Office]    Government Information Issues Access to Government Information [ARL] Diminished Access to Government Information [ALA Wash. Office] E-Government Act [ALA Wash. Office] Homeland Securities Act Resource Page [from OMB Watch] From the GODORT Legislative Committee: E-Government Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Government Secrecy and Information Security Homeland Security Presidential Records Act Removal of Government Information Revision of FAR & OMB Memo. M-02-07 Total Information Awareness USA PATRIOT Act & Related Anti-Terror Legislation   Intellectual Freedom Children's Internet Protection Act [NJLA] CIPA Web Site [ALA] CIPA Briefs [ALA] Intellectual Freedom & Federal Legislation [ALA Wash. Office] New Filtering Legislation Introduced [ARL}   Privacy Issues [USA Patriot Act and other legislation] Anti-Terrorism Legislation, Homeland Security, and Related Issues [ARL] FBI in Your Library [ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom] Guidelines to assist libraries with requests for confidential library records [NJLA] Libraries and the Patriot Legislation [ALA Washington Office] Privacy [ALA Washington Office] Privacy Statement: Policy statement relating to the USA Patriot Act [Colorado State University] Protecting Patron Records: Confidentiality, Search Warrants, Subpoenas, and the USA PATRIOT Act [Grayson Barber] Response to September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks [Center for Democracy and Technology] USA PATRIOT Act & Related Anti-Terror Legislation [GODORT Legislation Committee]   TEACH Act [Distance Education] New Copyright Exemptions for Distance Educators: The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act [ERIC Digest; Dec. 2002]  The TEACH Act Finally Becomes Law [U. of Texas] The TEACH Toolkit [North Carolina State University] The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act [ALA Washington Office]   UCITA AFFECT: Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions AFFECT response to UCITA 2002 revisions ALA's Washington Office website on UCITA NCCUSL Amendments to UCITA [2002] UCITA Headlines and Events [ALA Office of Govt. Relations] UCITA: Summary and Implications for Libraries and Higher Education [ARL]   Send suggestions and corrections to: Steven Shapiro Last Updated: Feb. 28, 2003