Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts, June 2022

Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts support the committee's mission to monitor governmental activities and social justice issues affecting the professional interests of ARLIS/NA and to keep the ARLIS/NA membership informed. The monthly alerts are intended to be conversation starters, help members keep up on public policy issues and alert members to new developments. The articles compiled in the News Alerts bring to the forefront recent news from a range of perspectives designed to elicit discussion; they are not compiled to represent the views of ARLIS as an organization or the members of the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee.

Previous issues can be found here: https://www.arlisna.org/news/appc-news-alert

Activism and Social Justice in the Arts

• Anania, Billy. "Anti-Abortion States, These Artists Are Coming for You." Hyperallergic, June 29, 2022
• Aponte, Sarah and Ortiz, Jhensen. “Making art: A collaborative project with MOMA, K.O.S., City College School of Education and CUNY DSI.” CCNY Libraries, May 12, 2022
• Brockell, Gillian. "Court rules purported descendant of enslaved man can sue Harvard." The Washington Post, June 23, 2022
• Mattei, Shanti Escalante-De. “Obsidian Wants To Be The ‘Getty Images’ of Black Archives With An NFT Twist.” ARTnews.com, June 23, 2022
• McIntosh, Linda. “‘Strength Through Art’ exhibit by veterans opens at Vista Library.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2, 2022
• Velie, Elaine. "Climate Activists Glue Themselves to a Van Gogh at London Gallery" Hyperallergic, June 30, 2022
• Villa, Angelica. “Billionaire Victor Pinchuck to Sell $12.6 M. Koons Sculpture to Fund Medical Aid to Ukrainian Soldiers.” ARTnews.com, June 8, 2022

Copyright and Licensing

• Brittain, Blake. “Artificial Intelligence Can Be a Patent ‘inventor,’ U.S. Appeals Court Told” Reuters, June 6, 2022 
• "Brief amici curiae of Library Futures Institute, et al." Supreme Court of the US, June 17, 2022.
• “Docket for 21-869: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., Petitioner v. Lynn Goldsmith, et Al.” Supreme Court of the US, June 17, 2022. 
• Government of Canada. “Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 156, Number 25: Copyright Board Rules of Practice and Procedure” Government of Canada, June 18, 2022
• M, Stefan. “The Truth About NFTs and Copyright.” NFT News Today, June 13, 2022
• Maxwell, Andy. “Publishers & Internet Archive Both Seek Piracy Lawsuit Win Without Full Trial.” TorrentFreak, June 14, 2022 
• Maxwell, Andy. “DMCA Subpoena to Unmask Twitter User Hits Fair Use & Constitutional Roadblock.” TorrentFreak, June 23, 2022
• “United States Seizes Six Websites Providing Illegal Access to Copyrighted Music.” US Department of Justice, June 27, 2022 
• Van der Sar, Ernesto. “The U.S. ‘Small’ Copyright Claims Board Goes Live This Week.” TorrentFreak, June 13, 2022
• Van der Sar, Ernesto. “Music Publishers Launch Crackdown on Copyright Infringing Apps.” TorrentFreak, June 17, 2022 
• Van der Sar, Ernesto. “Tarantino Asks Court to Dismiss Miramax’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Lawsuit.” TorrentFreak, June 22, 2022 
• Van der Sar, Ernesto. “Harvard Lawyers Don’t Think That Piracy Is Theft, Research Finds.” TorrentFreak, June 26, 2022 
• Vidalon, Dominique. “Google Resolves French Copyright Dispute over Online Content.” Reuters, June 21, 2022

Funding

• “F.D. Bluford Library receives a second round of funding to support student-led project.” Aggie Newsroom, June 23, 2022
• "Ruth Foundation for the Arts Launches $440 Million Philanthropic Effort." Artforum, June 30, 2022.
• Aton, Francesca. “Getty Foundation Awards $1.3 M. to Fund Prints and Drawings Initiatives.” ARTnews.com, June 9, 2022
• Liu, Jasmine. "NYC’s Leslie-Lohman Museum Gets $3.6M for Major Expansion" Hyperallergic, June 30, 2022
• Schlosser, Kurt. “Jeff Bezos Giving $10M to Expand Center for Innovation Named for Him at Seattle’s MOHAI.” GeekWire, June 13, 2022
• Solomon, Tessa. “With $12 M. Donation, Michigan’s Muskegon Museum Will Look to Build Wing Dedicated to Women Artists.” ARTnews.com, June 10, 2022

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility (IDEA)

• ALA News and Press Center. “ALA Condemns Threats of Violence in Libraries,” June 24, 2022
• Brink, Meghan. “Biden’s Title IX Overhaul.” Inside Higher Ed, June 24, 2022
• Burns, Jasmine, Michelle Cronquist, Jackson Huang, Devon Murphy, K.J. Rawson, Beck Schaefer, Jamie Simons, Brian M. Watson, and Adrian Williams. “Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources.” The Trans Metadata Collective, June 22, 2022
• Cooke, Nicole A., Renate Chancellor, Yasmeen Shorish, Sarah Park Dahlen, and Amelia Gibson. “Once More for Those in the Back: Libraries Are Not Neutral.” Publishers Weekly, June 10, 2022
• “Foundation Set for Ādisōke.” Library and Archive Canada, June 20, 2022
• Montpetit, Jonathan. “Libraries in Canada Hit by Wave of Hate, Threats, as Right-Wing Groups Protest All-Age Drag Events.” CBC News, June 27, 2022
• “Preserving the Stories of Sephardi–Mizrahi Jews in Canada—An Exhibition and a New Collection at Library and Archives Canada.” Library and Archive Canada, June 3, 2022
• Villa, Angelica. “Biden Approves Research Panel Seeking to Establish Museum Centered on Asian American Culture.” ARTnews.com, June 14, 2022
• Villa, Angelica. “Report: Nearly Half of U.S. Museums Place Main Focus on 4% of Modern and Contemporary Artists.” ARTnews.com, June 7, 2022

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information

• Bailey, Kristy. ”Library head: display is part of themed display for June.” The Alamance News, June 30, 2022
• Deutch, Gabby. ”A panel at national conference for librarians raises questions over approach to Holocaust denial.” Jewish Insider, June 28, 2022
• Ebrahimji, Alisha. “Four Libraries in New York Reversed Their Decision to Remove LGBTQ Book Displays from Children’s Sections after Facing Backlash.” CNN, June 24, 2022
• Higgins-Dailey, Jacqui. “The Intersection of Roe v. Wade and Intellectual Freedom.” ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog, June 20, 2022
• Hines, Shawnda. “Authors Jason Reynolds, Nancy Pearl Join High Schoolers to Unite Against Book Bans at World’s Biggest Library Event in Washington, D.C., June 25.” News and Press Center, June 21, 2022
• Morton, Joseph. "House Committee wants pause on handing parts of Bush library over to foundation." The Dallas Morning News, July 1, 2022
• Naftali, Tim. "The Death of Nonpartisan Presidential History." The Atlantic, June 3, 2022. 
• “OverDrive to Present Library Innovations Prioritizing ‘Access for All.’” OverDrive, June 23, 2022
• Sye, David. “Five Ways To Access Books After They Are Removed From Your Library.” Intellectual Freedom Blog, June 7, 2022
• Zehnder, Katherine. “Santa Barbara Library Implements App for 40,000 Electronic Titles.” Santa Barbara News-Press, June 27, 2022

Digital Privacy

• “Why Data Privacy Is a Concern in the Wake of Roe v. Wade Reversal.” CBS News, June 29, 2022 
• Feiner, Lauren. “Roe v. Wade Overturned: Here’s How Tech Companies and Internet Users Can Protect Privacy.” CNBC, June 24, 2022 
• Gajda, Amy. “How Dobbs Threatens to Torpedo Privacy Rights in the US.” Wired, June 29, 2022 
• Snow, Olivia. “Are You Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker?” Wired, June 27, 2022

Technology

• "W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization." LibraryTechnology.org, June 8, 2022
• Quaintance, Zack. “Where Can the Next Generation of Library Tech Take Us?,” Government Technology, June 28, 2022
• Solomon, Tessa. “The Guggenheim Is Making a Major Investment in Digital Art and Technology.” ARTnews.Com (blog), June 2, 2022
• Villa, Angelica. “$360,000 in NFTs Stolen During Yuga Labs Server Breach.” ARTnews.com, June 6, 2022

Workplace

• Cascone, Sarah. "The MFA Boston Reaches Its First Union Contract After 18 Months of Negotiations, a One-Day Strike, and an Intervention From the Mayor." Artnet News. June 28, 2022. 
• Aton, Francesca. “Selfie-Taking Tourist at Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum Rips Off Part of Artwork.” ARTnews.Com (blog), June 6, 2022
• Durón, Maximilíano. “Kate Fowle Will Step Down as Director of MoMA PS1.” ARTnews.com, June 10, 2022
• Kliger, Hannah. “State-of-the-art library opens in Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Heights.” CBS News New York, June 8, 2022
• Solomon, Tessa. “The FBI Is Investigating 25 Paintings Allegedly by Basquiat on View at the Orlando Museum of Art.” ARTnews.com, June 1, 2022
• Villa, Angelica. “Tate to Deaccession Francis Bacon Archive Over Authenticity Concerns.” ARTnews.com, June 8, 2022
  

Crab Bag

• “German librarians just discovered a drawing by Albrecht Dürer on the title page of a seldom looked at book from the 16th century.” Artnet, June 22, 2022

This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Freyja Catton, Carrie Evans, Sarah Hamerman, Kate Marcus, and Petra Warren.