LACA has responded to the UK government's Open Consultation on Copyright and AI, which closed on 25 February, 2025. Our response focused on the needs of the research sector, highlighting the transformative potential of AI for UK research and innovation. The topic of this consultation is a contentious one, and our members are working hard …
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The Access to Knowledge (A2K) Coalition, which LACA is a member of, represents educators, researchers, students, libraries, archives, museums, copyright academics, and other knowledge users and creative communities around the globe. A2K's main remit is lobbying the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on matters of relevance to these communities. On January 15, 2025 the A2K …
In light of the UK government's development of a Code of Practice for AI and Copyright, LACA has signed a multi-organisational letter urging the government to ensure the UK is a favourable place to develop and use safe AI. The undersigned organisations request the government clarifies that public and legally accessed data is available for …
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We wrote to the Chair of the Education Committee, Robin Walker MP, on 23 November, 2022, to express our concern about the state of the e-Book market in the UK: Robin Walker, MP Dear Mr Walker, Congratulations on your appointment as Chair of the Education Committee. I am writing on the issue of poorly functioning …
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Matt Greenhall, Deputy Executive Director of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and member of LACA, and Fred Saunderson, Rights and Information Manager at National Library of Scotland and Chair of LACA, introduce LACA's current priorities and new working group structure Providing a voice to the community LACA represents a broad cross-section of the library, information, and …
Library and archive premises across the UK have been closed for months, significantly restricting user access to physical collection materials and onsite services. Even as the country comes out of the Covid-19 lockdown, access limitations are likely to remain for some time. For example, it is likely that library and archive spaces will have capacity …
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Together with RLUK, SCONUL, Libraries Connected, SCURL, CILIP, and UCL Library Services, we have written to the Secretaries of State for Education and Digital, Culture, Media and SPort with an urgent request to facilitate greater copying under copyright law during the Covid-19 crisis. Rt Hon. Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Education Rt Hon. Oliver …
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A statement on the removal of the EU orphan works exception in the case of a no-deal Brexit, with an overview of alternatives if the exception is lost. Orphan Works No-Deal StatementDownload the statement PDF The UK Government previously announced that if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal, the EU orphan works …
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Tell us and LIBER if you have been blocked from access to electronic content in the context of data mining. This article is an adaptation of a post by LIBER's Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group, licensed by LIBER under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. LACA is working with LIBER's Copyright & Legal …
An overview of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and what it means for libraries, archives, and research. This post is an adaptation of a post by Barbara Stratton, LACA Vice-Chair and International Spokesperson, for EBLIDA, the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations. On 26th March 2019, the European Parliament …
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