Apply for 2010 Google Policy Fellowship with ALA Washington Office
The ALA Washington Office will be participating in the Google Policy Fellowship program for the summer of 2010. Google Policy Fellows work for ten weeks during the summer at ALA Washington or at other public interest organizations involved in debates on broadband and access policy, copyright reform, online privacy, and open government. In particular, ALA [...]
ALA seeks nominations for 2010 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
Contact: Jenni Terry
Press Officer
ALA Washington Office
(202) 628-8410
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Washington, D.C. – The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) is calling for nominations for the 2010 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. This annual award honors individuals or groups who embody the spirit of the U.S. copyright law as voiced by the framers [...]
Video posted of “D Is For Digitize” Google Book Settlement Conference at NYLS
The great folks over at New York Law School who put together the “D Is For Digitize” conference on the Google Book Settlement have uploaded video recordings of all the sessions (click on linked program titles to go to the video). OITP’s Carrie Russell spoke at Friday’s “P is for Public” session. In addition, Peter [...]
ALA Workgroup Releases Advanced Draft on “Librarianship and Traditional Cultural Expressions”
Over the last ten months, an OITP-lead workgroup has been collaborating with librarians, archivists and members of various indigenous communities within the United States in order to draft a statement of guiding principles concerning the management and protection of traditional cultural expressions (TCEs). TCEs are defined as, but not limited to, narratives, poetry, music, art, [...]
OITP Presents at 2009 LITA National Forum
This past weekend, OITP participated at the 2009 LITA National Forum in Salt Lake City. OITP talked about some of the policy considerations in libraries adopting mobile devices and services, such as digital copyright and content licensing, digital rights management, user privacy, and accessibility. Timothy Vollmer, Assistant Director of OITP’s Program on Public Access to [...]
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