Copyright policy should foster the freedom to truly own your stuff: to tinker with it, repair it, reuse it, recycle it, read or watch or launch it on any device, lend it, and then give it away (or re-sell it) when you're done.

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• EFF: It's Copyright Week: Let's Take Copyright Back
• Public Knowledge: Copyright Law and My Mother’s Heart
• EFF: Who Will Own the Internet of Things? (Hint: Not the Users)
• Public Knowledge: People Will Pay for True Ownership
• CCIA: Omega v. Costco Decision Makes Clear That Copyright Neither Condones Nor Protects Anticompetitive Actions
• CCIA: Unlocking the DMCA’s Stranglehold on Essential Software
• EFF: Where Copyright Fails, New Laws and Guidelines Help Secure Your Right to Tinker
• ALA: Libraries want to fix some things
• ARL: Flaws of the 1201 Rulemaking Process

For copyright to achieve its purpose of encouraging creativity and innovation, it must preserve and promote ample breathing space for unexpected and innovative uses.

Take Part:

• ARL announces Fair Use Week 2015 will take place February 23-27

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• ALCC: Updating Operating System Now: Where's our Fair Use?
• Creative Commons: The Limits of Copyright: Text and Data Mining
• EFF: Fair Use Is Not An Exception to Copyright, It’s Essential to Copyright
• CCIA: Fairly Useful: The Many Ways Fair Use Helps Industry
• ALA: Money does not solve everything (including copyright)
• CCIA: Rosen v. eBay: The Fair Use Doctrine Effectuating First Sale Rights in the Digital Environment
• ARL: New Fair Use Cases for 2015: Rosen v. eBay and Fox v. DISH
• CCIA: Fox v. Dish Network Lays Some Aereo Concerns to Rest

Copyright policy must be set through a participatory, democratic and transparent process. It should not be decided through back room deals or secret international agreements.

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• ARL: Trade, Transparency and Democratic Values
• CCIA: On Weaponized Uncertainty, Transparency, and Bringing Music Licensing in From the Cold
• ADA: Fair copyright policy starts with transparency
• EFF: Transparency is Necessary to Ensure the Copyright Industry Won't Sneak Policies Through the Back Door
• ALA: Where the heck did all of these librarians come from?
• Public Knowledge: Transparency in Copyright: Needed Now More Than Ever

The public domain is our cultural commons and a public trust. Copyright policy should seek to promote, and not diminish, this crucial resource.

Learn More:

• Creative Commons: For Faithful Digital Reproductions of Public Domain Works Use CC0
• Public Knowledge: Let’s Make It Easier to Expand the Public Domain
• CCIA: Should “The Interview” Remain in Copyright Until 2110?
• New Media Rights: The top 5 things New Media Rights thinks you should know about the public domain.
• Communia: The Little Prince: almost in the Public Domain
• ARL: Copyright Term Extension and the Public Domain