Copyright Guides for Software Collections Webinar
Channel: Association of Research Libraries
Date: 2022-10-06

On Tuesday, October 4, 2022 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), and the Software Preservation Network (SPN) co-hosted a webinar on providing access to software by using library exceptions to copyright alongside fair use and fair dealing.

The Copyright Acts in Canada and the United States contain exceptions for libraries, archives, and (in Canada) museums for the use of software collections. The SPN Law & Policy Working Group has created two new guides to using these exceptions, Section 108 and Software Collections: A User’s Guide and Section 30.1 and Software Collections: A User’s Guide. This webinar will explore these guides to Section 108 and 30.1 and discuss how these and other exceptions can be applied within your institutions for managing software collections.