Director, Copyright and Information Policy @NYPL. Views are mine and don't necessarily reflect NYPL's views. No legal advice given here.
Joined January 2011
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We’ve completed converting book registrations for 1923-1964. With these records, we now have great data on #copyright renewal rate for books published in this time period. We have more work to do and more records to convert for a definitive picture, but we’re getting there.
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Greg Cram retweeted
8 Dec 2025
Help us welcome Professor Nancy Weiss to PIJIP! Nancy joins as a Senior Policy Fellow and Adjunct Supervisor. A leader in major copyright and cultural heritage agreements, she will continue groundbreaking work on cultural heritage law next spring.
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Congrats to RAMM for opening its public domain collections. This is an important step in expanding access to the collections so that the decades of preservation and conservation can help the next generation of researchers, scholars and creators. A heavy, but worthwhile lift!
12 Feb 2024
Very exciting news - in partnership with @UniofExeter GLAM-E Lab, RAMM's reproduction images are going open access! You can now use our public domain images for free. Watch the video announcement here >>> youtube.com/watch?v=4s6aG2jH… #wikimedia #openaccess
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Congrats to @CopyrightOffice and @librarycongress for digitizing and posting over 9 million pages of the copyright record books. Making these pages available online without restriction will facilitate research into the record of American creativity. blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2023…
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Greg Cram retweeted
9 Mar 2023
.@AmericanU Prof. Patricia Aufderheide is seeking respondents for a survey on #copyright issues in cross-border teaching.
If you've taught online w. students or co-instructors in another country, pls consider completing this short survey. wcl.american.edu/impact/init… @paufder
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Greg Cram retweeted
19 Jan 2023
Hearing about @NYPL's commitment to liberating copyright data stretching back to the 1890s and putting it in an open source, searchable directory was hands down the most heartening presentation at #dbw23 #dbw2023 @DigiBookWorld
17 Jan 2023
DCL's Mark Gross and @nypl's @GregCram present "Unlocking Our Libraries: How Data Conversion Informs Accessibility" at @DigiBookWorld (digitalbookworld.com). #DBW23
DCL helped the New York Public Library make US Copyright Office records accessible: dataconversionlaboratory.com…
ALT Mark Gross, President, Data Conversion Laboratory, and Greg Cram, Associate General Counsel and Director of Information Policy, New York Public Library, at Digital Book World in New York City, January 17, 2023
ALT "The Importance of Structure, or Life After Scanning" slide on the screen during NYPL's and DCL's presentation at Digital Book World
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Greg Cram retweeted
15 Dec 2022
📣 IN 1 HOUR: Author talk with Peter Baldwin of THE COPYRIGHT WARS, in conversation with copyright scholar Pamela Samuelson. Co-sponsored by @Auths_Alliance.
Register now: eventbrite.com/e/author-talk…
ALT Author Talk The Copyright Wars Thurs, December 15 10am PT / 1pm ET
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Law school students: Are you interested in a well-rounded summer experience inside a corporate legal office? Want to see how the theory you're learning in school is practically applied in a large organization? Come join our 2023 legal internship program! nypl.pinpointhq.com/jobs/808…
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Greg Cram retweeted
1 Dec 2022
Science Magazine has published our joint academic opinion on copyright reform for text and data mining research.
@WCL_PIJIP @AUWCL_Faculty @AUWCL @ivir_uva
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Greg Cram retweeted
20 Sep 2022
To honor Morrison's tireless commitment to anti-censorship advocacy, NYPL is providing unlimited, instant digital access to two of her most challenged works, ‘Beloved’ and ‘The Bluest Eye’ through October 31.
#BannedBooksWeek
on.nypl.org/tonimorrison
ALT Author Toni Morrison signing books
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Greg Cram retweeted
5 May 2022
Congratulations to Professor Zvi Rosen @zvisrosen for being awarded the 2022 School of Law Outstanding Scholar Award!
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Interested in copyright education in libraries, archives and museums? Come join us for an informal chat on Friday to learn more about a group of practitioners working to improve copyright education through learning opportunities
4 May 2022
Join Us. This Friday, May 6 9PST/12EST-- Meet Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN). We will share our vision would love to hear what you your community need most? Register miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/regi… #copyright #OCEAN @oceancopyright @GregCram @KyleKCourtney
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Greg Cram retweeted
5 Apr 2022
What's on 2,700 wax cylinders the Library for the Performing Arts has in its archive? Thanks to new digitization technology, we can find out! @JenniferVanasco reported on the Endpoint, a machine that will help the Library digitize wax cylinders. npr.org/2022/04/05/109081931…
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Greg Cram retweeted
17 Mar 2022
Our commissioned #OpenAccess report from
@AndeeWallace is now published!
130 pages focused on how the UK #GLAM sector fares in the global open GLAM landscape, what barriers reinforce a culture of #copyright and the potential for open GLAM in the UK.
🔗doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.62426…
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Greg Cram retweeted
6 Mar 2022
New video weighing in on that whole dua lipa, artikal sound system thing!
youtu.be/HnA1QmZvSNs
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Greg Cram retweeted
28 Feb 2022
Join us today, Feb 28, at 7 PM ET for a conversation about the life and work of the late Tony Judt with friend and collaborator Timothy Snyder, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Register for the free #LIVEfromNYPL event: on.nypl.org/3uDucqS
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Greg Cram retweeted
7 Feb 2022
This has been a long time coming, exciting to see it bearing fruit. Direct link: loc.gov/collections/copyrigh…
7 Feb 2022
As part of #CopyrightOfficeModernization, the Copyright Office has released the first set of digitized historical copyright record books. go.usa.gov/xtfgW
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Copyright nerds rejoice! This is a big step in making the historical copyright record more broadly available to the public. There's still a lot of work to do to make these records actionable, but this is a significant step forward.
7 Feb 2022
As part of #CopyrightOfficeModernization, the Copyright Office has released the first set of digitized historical copyright record books. go.usa.gov/xtfgW
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ICYMI: You should apply for this position. Really. Do you know how many fun and interesting issues there are at the intersection of IP, technology and public service?
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Greg Cram retweeted
10 Dec 2021
Congratulations, "Pride and Prejudice" -- you were read more times than any other book on our site this year!
We scanned this copy thanks to a partnership with the New York Public Library (@nypl). #FreeBooks google.com/books/edition/_/k…
ALT Sepia photograph of a balding gentleman, with arms folded at his waist, talking to a dark-haired lady in a library or study. The lady is leaning in with her arms outstretched. A bookcase and window curtains are in the background.
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This is an important reminder on who's on the other end of our calls to House and Senate offices when we do direct public policy advocacy
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