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• In Support of Plaintiff in Pacific Bell Internet Services v. Recording Industry Association of America, Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of California

  Amicus Brief on Behalf of American Library Association, American Association of Law Libraries, et al
  November 17, 2003

• New Copyright Rules Fail to Provide Fair Access in the Digital World

  October 28, 2003

• Support for Full FY 2004 Funding for NARA's Electronic Records Archive (ERA)

  Letter to Chairman Young and Ranking Member Obey
  October 6, 2003

• Support for Full FY 2004 Funding for NARA's Electronic Records Archive (ERA)

  Letter to Chairman Stevens and Ranking Member Byrd
  October 6, 2003

• Information Access Alliance

  Information Access Alliance Will Continue to Push for Revised Analysis of Publisher Mergers Despite Justice Department's Recent Approval of Cinven and Candover Purchase of Bertelsmannspringer
  September 9, 2003

• Opposition to the Discussion Draft "Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act"

  Letter to the Honorable James Sensenbrenner, Jr. and the Honorable W.J. "Billy" Tauzin
  September 4, 2003

• Need for Public Input on Information Sharing Rules

  Letter to the Honorable Tom Ridge
  August 27, 2003

• Amicus Brief on Behalf of AALL Social Responsibilities SIS and Legal Information Services to the Public SIS

  In Support of Appellants in Gregory Henderson, et al., v. James V. Crosby, Jr. et al, on Appeal from a Final Judgment of the Second Judicial Circuit Court In and For Leon County, Florida
  August 25, 2003

• U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements

  Letter to the Honorable Sherrod Brown
  August 18, 2003

• Information Access Alliance Releases White Paper and Launches Web Site

  July 28, 2003

• Support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act

  Letter to the Honorable Zoe Lofgren
  June 24, 2003

• U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements

  Letter to Chairman Philip M. Crane and Ranking Member Sander M. Levin
  June 19, 2003

• U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements

  Letter to Chairman Charles E. Grassley and Ranking Member Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee
  June 19, 2003

• Support for Senator Brownback's Consumer Privacy Protection Amendments

  Letter to the Honorable John McCain, Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee
  June 18, 2003

• Libraries Urge Justice Department to Block Cinven and Candover Purchase of Bertelsmannspringer

  May 30, 2003

• Opposition to Sec. 364 of the Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act

  Letter to the members of the House Ways and Means Committee
  May 20, 2003

• Amicus Brief with the EFF and 43 otherorganizations in RIIA v. Verizon to Protect First Amendment Anonymity and Privacy Rights

  May 16, 2003

• Freedom of Information Act Exemption for National Security Agency Files in S. 1050, Defense Authorization Act

  Letter to Chairman John Warner and Ranking Member Carl Levin, Senate Committee on Armed Services
  May 16, 2003

• AALL Endorses Book and Library Community Statement Supporting The Freedom to Read Protection Act (H.R. 1157)

  May 15, 2003

• Draft Statement of Work for ERIC

  Letter to the Honorable Rod Paige, Secretary of Education
  May 7, 2003

• Opposition to the Electronic Government Services Act

  Letter to the Honorable Doug White, President of the Ohio Senate
  April 29, 2003

• Support for the FY 2004 Budget Request of the Library of Congress

  Letter to the Honorable Jack Kingston, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislative, House Committee on Appropriations
  April 22, 2003

• Support for the FY 2004 Budget Requests of the Library of Congress

  Letter to the Honorable Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Chairman of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee, Senate Appropriations Committee
  April 22, 2003

• Supplemental Comments on the Second Draft Consolidated Texts of the Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement

  Letter to the Office of the United States Trade Representative
  February 28, 2003

• Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc., Docket No. 02-335

  Letter to Mr. Mark Pennak, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division
  February 21, 2003

• Amicus Brief on Behalf of the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, American Association of Law Libraries, Digital Future Coaling, Public Knowledge

  In support of Petition for Write of Certiorari in Dastar Corporation v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
  February 14, 2003

• Opposition to Proposed Closure of the Florida State Library

  Letter to the Honorable John Ellis (Jeb) Bush
  February 13, 2003

• Support for Senate Resolution to Provide Internet Access to Congressional Documents and CRS Publications

  Letter to the Hnorable John McCain and Honorable Patrick J. Leahy
  February 11, 2003

• Technology Protection Systems for Digitized Copyrighted Works: Higher Education Associations' and Library Associations' Statement for the Record

  Letter to Veronica Steadman
  February 4, 2003

• Task Force on the Model Definition of the Practice of Law, American Bar Association Proposed Definition of the Practice of Law

  February 4, 2003

• Comments on the Second Draft Consolidated Texts of the Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement

  Letter to the Office of the United States Trade Representative
  January 31, 2003

• Joint Library and Education Letter to the President and House of Delegates of the American Bar Association

  Letter to the ABA President Carlton and House of Delegates
  January 30, 2003

• AFFECT's Open Letter to the President and House of Delegates of the American Bar Association

  Letter to the ABA President Carlton and House of Delegates
  January 29, 2003

• Opposition to UCITA from the Society for Information Management

  Letter to the Members of the ABA House of Delegates
  January 29, 2003

• Request to Co-sponsor the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act

  LEtter to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives
  January 27, 2003

• Joint Comments on Technological Protection Systems for Digitized Copyrighted Works

  Letter to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  January 14, 2003

• Digital Rights Management: Whose Rights Are Being Managed (Revisited)?