About the Project

The Project on Law and the Future of Learning enables educators, librarians, and researchers to center their professional and ethical mission. We offer guidance and training to help navigate real and perceived challenges presented by copyright and related areas of law and policy.

As new technologies and new business models unsettle long held norms and guidance, we work with practitioners to move beyond reactivity to build out a positive agenda that enables their work.

We focus on three core areas of work:

1. Understanding and claiming the full extent of what can be done under the existing law, under fair use and other legal provisions

2. Building open alternatives to extractive commercial models

3. Documenting the urgent need for updated boundaries to copyright law that preserves the crucial balance in the print era that enabled schools, libraries, research institutions, to meet their mission and to preserve the public interest in access to knowledge