Authors Alliance is Hiring a Staff Attorney
Do you want to help authors understand and enjoy their rights and promote policies that make knowledge and culture available […]
Rights Reversion: Opening Classic Works to New Global Audiences
We are grateful to Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Virginia Tech, for sharing
Dr. Seuss, Picasso, and Grease: Fair Use in the Courts
As a follow up to our recent coverage of the fair use issues in the Chronicle Books v. Audible Inc.
Authors Alliance Supports Limitations and Exceptions and Rights Reversion at SCCR/39
Last week, Authors Alliance participated in the thirty-ninth session of the World Intellectual Property (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and
Q&A With Barbara Kline-Pope on Open Access Publishing Initiatives at Johns Hopkins University Press
Open Access Week 2019 takes place from October 21-27. To mark the occasion, we’re featuring a series of Open Access
Q&A with Calvin Warren: Open Access and Democratizing the Accessibility of Knowledge
Open Access Week 2019 takes place from October 21-27. To mark the occasion, we’re featuring a series of Open Access
Audible Captions: The Case For and Against Fair Use
The following post by Authors Alliance Copyright Research Assistant Nicolas Charest provides an update on recent developments in the Chronicle
Academic Authors Find Larger Audience through Controlled Digital Lending
We thank the Internet Archive for permission to cross-post this piece on how controlled digital lending (“CDL”) can benefit academic
Resource Roundup: Negotiating Book Publication Contracts
In October 2018, we released our guide to Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts and made it available as a
NYPL Project Reveals Nearly 75% of Books from 1924-1964 are Likely in the Public Domain
Earlier this year, the New York Public Library (NYPL) announced preliminary results from an analysis of copyright registration and renewal