Publishers Sue to Block Audible Captions
Last Friday, a group of seven publishers—including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan—filed suit […]
New Accessibility Resource: The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and Copyrights
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Virginia Library recently released The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling
Ruth Okediji on the Limits of International Copyright Exceptions for Developing Countries
In a recent article in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (available on SSRN), Ruth Okediji of Harvard
“A More Balanced Approach to Copyright Reform”: Michael Geist On the Statutory Review of the Canadian Copyright Act
In December 2018, Authors Alliance submitted a brief to the Canadian Committee on Industry, Science and Technology in response to
Copyright Law Has a Small Claims Problem. The CASE Act Won’t Solve It
We are grateful to Authors Alliance’s Copyright Research Assistant Kerry Maeve Sheehan for this analysis of the 2019 CASE Act.
Jason Mazzone on Copyfraud and the Lawsuit Against Getty Images
We thank Jason Mazzone, the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for
Accessibility Resource Roundup
April 23 is World Book and Copyright Day, an annual event organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing, and copyright
Fair Use, Innovation, and Controlled Digital Lending
We’d like to thank co-authors Kyle K. Courtney and David R. Hansen for permission to re-post the following article, which
Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split on Copyright Registration
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved the question of what the Copyright Act means when it says that a work
Giving the Authors a Voice in Litigation? An ACS v. ResearchGate Update
We’re grateful to David Hansen, Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communications at Duke, for granting permission for us to repost