In May 2014, Authors Alliance officially launched with a party at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. We’ve been keeping busy in the two years since, growing to support and advocate for our expanding community of 800 and members and counting. We’ve released two educational guides for authors, and provided assistance with rights reversion and contract questions. We’ve spoken at the national level about pressing copyright and policy issues, and traveled around North America to host workshops and panel discussions.

We’re currently working on a third educational guide on fair use for non-fiction authors, and are partnering with the Internet Archive to help our members make books more available, as well as with Creative Commons to build a tool to assist with termination of transfers (an area of copyright law that enables authors to regain the rights to their work if certain conditions are met). We look forward to sharing more details with you as these projects move ahead.

As we celebrate two years of empowering authors who write to be read, we encourage those of you who may not yet be members to join. Membership in Authors Alliance is free, and our members are the first to hear about our news and resources. Sign up here today!