"Think of it like trying to fill a bathtub with a drain wide open."
You all don't need another story about ebook price-gouging, but we can't resist a good metaphor.
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/qa-p...
"Think of it like trying to fill a bathtub with a drain wide open."
You all don't need another story about ebook price-gouging, but we can't resist a good metaphor.
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/qa-p...
Happy Fair Use Friday during #fairuseweek! We’ve celebrated how fair use is essential to innovation & creativity, giving America a competitive edge. Check out our new one-pager explaining what fair use is, how we use it daily, and its impact on U.S. innovation! recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...
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Still time to register for today's Intern Showcase!
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Library Futures Announces Release of ImagineIF: The Game (via @libraryfutures.bsky.social) www.libraryfutures.net/post/library... #libraries #librarians
23.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0As part of Freedom to Read Week, we invite you to play Imagine IF: A Game-Based Introduction to Intellectual Freedom by @libraryfutures.bsky.social. Find yourself in the role of library staff as you navigate intellectual freedom issues and interact with patrons and staff in an online game!
23.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And thanks to @miajakobsen.bsky.social for your work on Imagine IF!
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Got book challenges? Need informative, interactive, level-headed, and fun advice on how to handle them? We've got you.
Imagine IF: The Game is out now from Library Futures! See where you intellectual freedom adventure takes you!
www.libraryfutures.net/post/library...
Happy Fair Use Week! This week, Re:Create, its members, and balanced copyright allies are highlighting the importance of fair use for creativity and innovation.
Explore resources and events happening throughout the week from Re:Create & @arl.org:
AAP: Library ebook pricing laws "take away the rights of authors." K.
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And we're so excited to have @kslater.bsky.social (and everyone else) on board!
18.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Library Futures Announces 2026 Research Network Grants (via @libraryfutures.bsky.social) www.libraryfutures.net/post/library... #libraries
14.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The AI Model Policies Working Group, independent publisher/library collaborations, and much more--meet our 2026 Research Network!
www.libraryfutures.net/post/library...
Library Futures Intern Showcase, Wednesday, February 25, 1 pm ET/10 am PT
Local news, libraries, lawyers, zines, games, and more! Join Library Futures interns Thomas Alexander, Théodora Dillman, Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen, and Siena Oristaglio as they talk about their work Wednesday 2/25!
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Find the full letter (and much more from Library Futures!) on our website.
www.libraryfutures.net/advocacy
5 February 2026 Dear Esteemed Members of the Committee, I am the Executive Director of Library Futures, a project of NYU Law’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. Overdrive CEO Steve Potash’s recent testimony regarding B26-0490: Library E-book Pricing Fairness Amendment Act of 2025 contained a number of factual inaccuraciesabout Library Futures, including: (1) our role in advocating for the bill, (2) our organization’s mission, and (3) the bill's relationship to the practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). I would like to take this opportunity to provide the Committee with more information about our organization, the work we do, and the importance of B26-0490.
Steve Potash made... a number of misstatements in his 58 pages of testimony on D.C.'s ebook bill, including some about Library Futures. Our ED @littlewow.online corrects them, and @wordsandmoney.bsky.social has a write up.
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🎉 Today, @lujan.senate.gov, @morelle.house.gov, & @gluesenkampperez.house.gov introduced the “Fair Repair Act” to protect consumers’ right to repair their own electronic products. Read our statement from Senior Policy Advocate Patrick Gallaher:
05.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to the fine folks at the Data Rescue Project on this well-deserved award--and huge thanks to their 900 volunteers who saved over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies in 2025.
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How does Section 230 affect libraries? Former Library Futures student fellow provided a still-useful rundown in 2023.
www.libraryfutures.net/post/section...
"What [Section 230] does is create breathing room for platforms to moderate content without facing endless litigation over every removal decision, while simultaneously protecting their ability to leave up controversial-but-legal speech without being treated as the publisher of that content."
05.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
"[W]e live in a world where our data is valuable and our power to protect it is negligible.... [Our data] is important enough that a federal cowboy kept one hand on his phone even as his other hand reached for his gun."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
Love data? It's not quite time for the official Week, but For the People has some nice data viz pulled from last year's IMLS stats.
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#FairUseFriday Fair use plays an essential role in preserving art forms from one generation to the next.
30.01.2026 15:41 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
hands holding library cards, tablets, and books in a groovy 70s style / Library Futures logo
As always, we're here to fight for your digital rights--now and in the future. Join us.
www.libraryfutures.net
But as we celebrate culture and digital preservation, let's also remember the many ways that digital media has made that culture LESS accessible to libraries and the people they serve. /3
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THANKFULLY, libraries still exist, along with a cool service called interlibrary loan, which means your library can borrow something from another library for you--at least as long as it's not digital (and not a Gutenberg Bible, to be fair). /2
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Films Selected for the 2025 National Film Registry (chronological order). The Oath of the Sword, The Maid of McMillan, and The Lady are crossed out. The Tramp and the Dog (1896) The Oath of the Sword (1914) The Maid of McMillan (1916) The Lady (1925) Sparrows (1926) Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926) White Christmas (1954) High Society (1956) Brooklyn Bridge (1981) Say Amen, Somebody (1982) The Thing (1982) The Big Chill (1983) The Karate Kid (1984) Glory (1989) Philadelphia (1993) Before Sunrise (1995) Clueless (1995) The Truman Show (1998) Frida (2002) The Hours (2002) The Incredibles (2004) The Wrecking Crew (2008) Inception (2010) The Loving Story (2011) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Props to the Library of Congress for their ongoing preservation work. If you wanted to stream three of the films chosen for this year, you'd be out of luck (and you'd be shelling out a lot of streaming service dough for the rest). /1
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Need direct evidence of the impact of prison libraries? Check out Controlled Chaos, a zine by library workers at San Quentin:
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"'Prison libraries open doors of opportunity and provide essential literacy support to address the urgent information needs of millions of incarcerated people in the United States,' said Sam Helmick, American Library Association President."
www.ala.org/news/2026/01...
AI + IP + licensing + Disney. What could go wrong?
(The four horsemen of the copyright apocalypse? Too much?)
andresizquierdo.com/2026/01/21/i...
Did you miss Copyright Week this year? It's okay. There's a lot going on--and our friends @eff.org have the roundup. (Click through for the adorable animation!)
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