Editing American Library Association (section)

===Copyright===
The ALA "supports efforts to amend the [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act]] (DMCA) and urges the courts to restore the balance in copyright law, ensure fair use and protect and extend the public domain."<ref>{{cite web |last=Nisbet |first=Miriam |date=October 2006 |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyright/copyagenda.pdf |title=2006 Copyright Agenda |publisher=ALA |access-date=February 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403122831/http://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/copyright/copyagenda.pdf |archive-date=April 3, 2015}}</ref> It supports changing [[copyright]] law to eliminate damages when using [[orphan works]] without permission;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0658-LCA.pdf |title=Re: Orphan Works Notice of Inquiry |publisher=Library Copyright Alliance / U.S. Copyright Office |access-date=2009-07-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627032833/http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0658-LCA.pdf|archive-date=27 June 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> is wary of [[digital rights management]]; and, in ''[[ALA v. FCC]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.eff.org/cases/ala-v-fcc|title=American Library Association v. Federal Communications Commission |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation|date=July 2011 }}</ref>'' successfully sued the [[Federal Communications Commission]] to prevent regulation that would enforce next-generation digital televisions to contain rights-management hardware. It has joined the Information Access Alliance to promote open access to research.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/openaccesstoresearch/accessresearch|title=Open Access|publisher=ALA|access-date=2015-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920154048/http://ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyright/openaccesstoresearch/index.cfm|archive-date=2010-09-20|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Copyright Advisory Network of the association's Office for Information Technology Policy provides copyright resources to libraries and the communities they serve. The ALA is a member of the Library Copyright Alliance,<ref>[http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/ Library Copyright Alliance]</ref> along with the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College and Research Libraries, which provides a unified voice for over 300,000 information professionals in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Background|url=http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/about/index.shtml|publisher=Library Copyright Alliance|access-date=March 31, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414064449/http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/about/index.shtml|archive-date=April 14, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Currently, the ALA supports bill H.R. 905, also known as the You Own Devices Act, stating "to foster the social and commercial evolution of the "Internet of Things" by codifying the right of the owner of a device containing 'essential software' intrinsic to its function to transfer [e.g. sell or lease] both the device and the software."<ref>{{cite web|title= Copyright|url=http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright |publisher=American Library Association|date=March 10, 2019 }}</ref>