The US Copyright Office was asked by Sens. Tillis and Leahy, in the wake of the Allen v. Cooper decision earlier this year, to study the question of state sovereign immunity in the copyright context.
A number of university and library entities, and practitioners in the field, have weighed in:
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and American Association of Universities (AAU)
- Association of SouthEastern Research Libraries (ASERL)
- Library Copyright Alliance (consisting of ARL, ACRL, and ALA)
- University of Minnesota (authored by Nancy Sims)
- University of Illinois (authored by Sara Benson & Scott E. Rice)
- Kevin Hawkins, University of North Texas
- Raven Lanier, University of Michigan Libraries
- Laura Quilter, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
- Additional comments at Register.gov