Day September 24, 2018

This Week: Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

The Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest will be held September 27-29 at American University Washington College of Law. The Global Congress is the main convening of a global network of over 800 researchers, activists and practitioners who work on the intersection of the public interest. The core goal is to promote evidence-based policy-making by fostering partnerships between academics and policy advocates from around the world. Selected talks and panels will be live-streamed.

Software Preservation Best Practices in Fair Use to Help Safeguard Cultural Record, Advance Research

The new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation provides clear guidance on the legality of archiving legacy software to ensure continued access to digital files of all kinds and to illuminate the history of technology. This Code was made by and for the software preservation community, with the help of legal and technical experts. The publication provides librarians, archivists, curators, and others who work to preserve software with a tool to guide their reasoning about when and how to employ fair use—the legal doctrine that allows many value-added uses of copyrighted materials—in the most common situations they currently face.