LIBRARY COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE COMMENTS ON CASE ACT NOTICE OF INQUIRY

Abstract

The Library Copyright Alliance (“LCA”) welcomes this opportunity to provide its comments on the Copyright Office’s March 26, 2021 Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) on regulations implementing the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (“CASE”) Act. LCA consists of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries. These associations collectively represent over 100,000 libraries in the United States employing more than 300,000 librarians and other personnel. An estimated 200 million Americans use these libraries more than two billion times each year. U.S. libraries spend over $4 billion annually purchasing or licensing copyrighted works.