Guides and References

Resources on Legislative Issues that Affect Libraries

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]

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Last Updated: Feb. 28, 2003