**How The Internet Is Supporting Creators, Connections And Coping During COVID-19** New TikTok Feature Helps Creators Fundraise For Charities. TikTok launched a new feature that allows creators to raise funds for their favorite charities by adding a sticker to a video or live stream. The donations, which are powered by charitable fundraising platform Tiltify, are in support of organizations like…

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**Copyright’s Role In Supporting Health And Safety During COVID-19** Sharing Knowledge About Life-Saving Device Serves The Public Interest. In a blog about top engineers around the globe who are cooperating and sharing knowledge about medical technology, EFF highlights the importance of ensuring legal restrictions, like patents and copyrights, aren’t an obstacle to innovation. With research underway to find emergency alternatives…

**How Americans Are Using Internet Platforms For Good During COVID-19** Etsy Community Helps Meet Demand For Face Masks. Etsy is helping its community of creators meet the demand by encouraging sellers to make and sell masks if they have the skills and materials. In a blog, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman highlights that between April 4-6, there were two million searches…

Experts from the world’s top engineering programs have come together to share knowledge about medical technology, hoping to make life-saving treatments more widely available. Importantly, they’re ensuring that patents, copyrights, and other legal restrictions don’t get between that knowledge and the people who need it most.

**Copyright Law And Education As Classrooms Move Online** AALL Compiles COVID-19 Resources. The American Association of Law Libraries compiled a list of COVID-19 resources to help others navigate working and learning remotely. The list includes a blog series by AALL member Kyle K. Courtney which provides guidance on remote learning. Courtney reminds readers in his first post that “libraries and…

Dear Dr Gurry, We write to you as organisations and individuals representing researchers, educators, students, and the institutions that support them, to encourage WIPO to take a clear stand in favour of ensuring that intellectual property regimes are a support, and not a hindrance, to efforts to tackle both the Coronavirus outbreak and its consequences.

**How The Internet Is Supporting Creators During COVID-19** Spotify, Pandora, YouTube Music & Others Pledge Millions To Support Music Industry. Amazon Music, Facebook, SiriusXM and Pandora, Spotify, TIDAL, and YouTube Music announced contributions to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund to provide financial support for musicians and music industry workers in need. Spotify pledged up to $10 million in donations and…

Like every other major institution operating during the coronavirus pandemic, research libraries are confronting sudden and radical shifts in their daily realities. Foremost among these challenges is the near-total loss of access to paper books and other physical library holdings.