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.
AI, Authorship, and the Public Interest – Project Update and Call for Grant Proposals
Authors Alliance is pleased to announce the availability of research grants of up to $20,000 to support research projects at the intersection of artificial intelligence, copyright law, and the public interest.
The UK’s Curious Case of Copyright for AI-Generated Works: What Section 9(3) Means Today
This blog post reflects on the legislative history and jurisprudence behind Section 9(3) of CDPA—a provision that purports to offer copyright protection for computer-generated works.
Visit Authors Alliance’s Booth at AWP 2025
This post is by Syn Ong, an LLM student at U.C. Berkeley Law School. This semester, Syn has been working
Hachette v. Internet Archive Update: Second Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Against Internet Archive
We got a disappointing decision yesterday from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the long-running Hachette v. Internet Archive
Seeking Authors & Books to Feature in Our Book Talk Series with Internet Archive
Authors and Publishers: We are looking for books (both new & classic titles) to feature in our popular book talk
Book Talk: The Secret Life of Data
Book Talk: The Secret Life of Data How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and
Publishers’ brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive: First Impressions
Dave Hansen and Kyle Courtney jointly authored this post. They are also the authors of a White Paper on Controlled
Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Register here for this IN-PERSON event hosted in San Francisco at the Internet Archive on May 17 Moral panics about
Why Fair Use Supports Non-Expressive Uses
This post is part of Fair Use Week series, cross-posted at https://sites.harvard.edu/fair-use-week/2024/02/29/fair-use-week-2024-day-four-with-guest-expert-dave-hansen/ AI programs and their outputs raise all sorts