If you are interested in copyright – or if you think copyright laws don’t really apply to you – you might want to look through this article from the Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

Take a moment to mourn  the material we can not access, that we can not freely share with our patrons, and that may never be accessible to us!! (How many of our patrons would have enjoyed having a free copy of Green Eggs and Ham?)

Current copyright law is too often a tragedy for libraries, and for the communities we serve. Look at this list, published every year by this organization, and consider some ways you might work within copyright laws to help your patrons. And then be a voice of advocacy in your community to loosen these too-tight federal laws!!

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