Don't forget to join OCEAN tomorrow (Friday, February 7) to learn how to manage the preservation and access of collections that pose both ethical issues and copyright and related interests, such as traditional knowledge. More info below:

www.oceancopyright.org/event-detail...

Excited to share that many of our past webinar recordings, slides, hypotheticals, and other guides are now available via the Carolina Digital Repository: cdr.lib.unc.edu/collections/...

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Happy #PublicDomainDay 2025!⁠ It's the day at the start of each year on which works enter the #publicdomain. See our highlights — featuring Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and others — here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01...

Covers of books from Internet Archive’s book talk series.

Miss one of our thought-provoking book talks with Authors Alliance (@authorsalliance.bsky.social) this year? Don’t worry—we’ve put them all together in a year-end recap, complete with session recordings.

Catch up here 👉️ blog.archive.org/2024/12/17/r...

Looking for a deeper dive into how copyright law affects specific functions and areas of libraries, such as Interlibrary Loan, course reserves, or text data mining? We're adding our deep dive workshop recordings to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/@lib...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Litigation Update. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. It's back! Our much anticipated and very well attended bi-annual litigation update. Come here a panel of experts examine the latest case law that may impact how you preserve and provide access to co...

Happening TODAY at 12pm ET/9am PT! Join this FREE Open Copyright Education Advisory Network webinar today for its semi-annual litigation update. Featuring our very own Yuanxiao Xu speaking about Keck v. Mix Creative and Stability v. Anderson:

miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Developing a public-interest training commons of books Photo by Zetong Li on Unsplash Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable plan for a public-interest book training commons f…

We're super pleased to announce today a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to address many of the challenges we've associated with AI training and books:

"Developing a public interest training commons of books"

Read more: www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...

Our most recent webinar, "What's up with CDL after the Hachette decision?", is available to stream via ASERL's webinar archive: t.co/WRgijQvBOV

What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...

(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)