Book Talk: After Disruption: A Future For Cultural Memory
Join us and Internet Archive on September 25, 2025 for a book talk with Trevor Owens, author of “After Disruption: […]
Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It
We’ve written before about the use of contracts limiting author’s access to fair use, including how publisher contracts restrict innovation
Reminder to Support Authors Alliance
So far this year, Authors Alliance has worked tirelessly to ensure that the voices of authors who write to advance
When Your Publisher Isn’t the Dream Partner You Hoped For — What Counts as Material Breach of a Publishing Agreement?
This is a guest post by Hana Khan-Tareen, who is a Legal Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. We appreciate her insight on how authors can best protect their rights.
Book Talk: Preserving Government Information
This event has passed. You can watch the recording here. Join us for a timely conversation with librarians James Jacobs and Jim Jacobs about
AI and Copyright: What Authors and Libraries Need to Know about the Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta Cases
Join ARL and Authors Alliance for an essential discussion on how recent landmark court decisions are shaping the landscape of AI and copyright law. This webinar is open to the public.
Federal Agency Publication & Data Sharing Policy Overview & FAQ Events
In response to the 2022 Nelson Memo, federal agencies are required to update their public access policies by the end of this year. New policies are now in effect for several agencies: the NIH, CDC, AHRQ, DOE, and NASA. On August 5th at 1pm ET / 10am PT, Authors Alliance and SPARC will host a webcast focusing on new publications sharing requirements, providing an overview of key elements of these policies, highlighting the differences between them, and answering participants’ questions. You can register for the August 5th event here.
The NIH Public Access Policy: Implementation and Feedback
The NIH Public Access Policy is in effect as of July 1, 2025. In response, Authors Alliance and SPARC have created a form to collect information about challenges or questions faced by authors, librarians and their institutions in complying with the roll out of new public access policies by federal grant making agencies in compliance with the OSTP directive to make federally funded research freely available to the public immediately upon publication.
Meta Wins on Fair Use for Now, but Court Leaves Door Open for “Market Dilution”
“Market dilution” suggests that “using copyrighted books to train an LLM might harm the market for those works because it enables the rapid generation of countless works that compete with the originals, even if those works aren’t themselves infringing.”
Understanding the Real Barriers to Text and Data Mining
Our law student intern this semester studied the legal and practical challenges facing TDM researchers. She shares her key takeaways.