NEWS
Find out what your membership can do at the inaugural CILIP Member Fest
CILIP Member Fest takes place next month with free online events to showcase how you can get more from your membership. Running throughout the week form 14 to 18 October, the Member Fest programme will be delivered CILIP’s member Net- works, Special Interest Groups and staff. The aim is to help all members to build connections and explore networks – both in their own sectors and further afield. And because all events are open access,
Member Fest is a great opportunity to invite colleagues along for a taste of what CILIP can offer. CILIP Events Manager Louise Greener says: “The whole programme is designed to introduce you to what we and our amazing communities do, encourage you to make the most of your member- ship, and provide opportunities for you to super-charge your career by introducing you to committee, mentoring and other professional network openings.” Whether you are looking to build con-
nections in your own sector, find out more about what’s happening elsewhere in the profession or discover how CILIP can help you in your professional develop- ment, there is plenty on offer throughout the week.
The full programme is still evolving,
but there are already plenty of sessions to sign up for. Head over to the Member Fest page on the CILIP website and start planning your week. l
www.cilip.org.uk/MembersFest24
Internet Archive CDL appeal loss
THE Internet Archive has lost its appeal against a ruling that said its use of controlled digital lending (CDL) broke copyright law. In their decision (
https://bit.ly/3zbzUEQ), Appeal Court judges in the US asked: “Is it ‘fair use’ for a non-profit organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety, and distribute those digi- tal copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding publishers or authors? Applying the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act as well as binding Supreme
Court and Second Circuit precedent, we conclude the answer is no.” Maria Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) said: “Critically, the Court frontally rejects the defendant’s self-crafted theory of ‘con- trolled digital lending’,… noting that the ecosystem that makes books possible in fact depends on an enforceable Copyright Act.” In a statement the Internet Archive said:
“We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and pre- serve books.”
Brewster Khale, founder of Internet Archive told the New York Times: “I don’t know that there is really an awareness of what’s going on in the movement toward licence-only access to electronic material” adding that libraries are “not just a Netflix reseller of books to their patrons... Librar- ies have always been more than that.” Washington-based thinktank Libraries Futures said there were still a number of forms of Controlled Digital Lend- ing models that were not implicated in the decision adding: “Library adminis- tered digital lending is growing, and we will continue our work on digital owner- ship with our partners, including the Internet Archive.”
Untold black ballet in public libraries
AN exhibition telling the untold stories of Britain’s black ballet dancers will tour 25 public libraries from October 2024 to Novem- ber 2025. Into the Light: Pioneers of Black British Ballet includes archive photography, film, newspaper articles and posters alongside new video and audio interviews. It is brought to libraries via a partner- ship between creative agency Oxygen Arts and Libraries Connected. Only in the mid-1980s did black dancers begin to find success in established British ballet companies. Oxygen Arts estimates that less than three per cent of dancers in the biggest three ballet com- panies are from a black British background.
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