We pursue a research and programmatic agenda that strengthens the rights of libraries, including working toward ownership of digital works through the adoption of less restrictive licensing agreements for e-media and e-books.

Videos

What is Controlled Digital Lending?

The End of Library Ownership?

Mythbusting Controlled Digital Lending

Controlled Digital Lending for Libraries and Consortia

Why Trust a Corporation to do a Library's Job?

In The News

Forbes: The Paper to Pixels Workaround Activists Want to Use to Keep Your Library Online
Info Today: Library Futures is Pushing the Digital Lending Envelope
IFLA: Sustaining Libraries in a Digital World
Publisher's Weekly: New Nonprofit to Advocate for Digital Content in Libraries
How to Fix the Internet Podcast: You Bought it, But do you Own it?
New Republic: Billion-Dollar Book Companies are Ripping off School Districts
The Nation: Publishers are Taking the Internet to Court
Kyle K. Courtney: Libraries Do Not Need Permission To Lend Books: Fair Use, First Sale, and the Fallacy of Licensing Culture
Brewster Kahle: Libraries lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
Public Knowledge: No One Should Have to Wait 8 Months for a Library Book
Washington Post: Amazon's Monopoly is Squeezing Your Library, Too
The Daily Beast: Publishers are Using Ebooks to Extort Schools and Libraries

Supporting our principles

Controlled Digital Lending Position Statement
CIRC Project
EFF: "Defend your Right to Repair"
Public Knowledge: “Tell Congress to Let Libraries Fight Back”
Library Freedom Project
Fight for the Future: “Who can get your book?"
Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship
#ebookSOS
#econtent for libraries

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