The Center for Media and Social Impact releases “Best Practices” guides designed to help communities of creators and specialists in how U.S. copyright’s “fair use” doctrine applies to uses typical in a given community. Guides exist for diverse fields and communities, including documentary filmmaking, open courseware, poetry, and for academic libraries.
Guest post by Founding Member David Hansen Today we celebrate a new tool that will make it easier for libraries
Pam Samuelson & Mike Wolfe At Authors Alliance we keep a close eye on what’s going on in fair use
We believe it is high time for authors like us to speak up for a “Next Great Copyright Act” that will carry forward the Founders’ vision of copyright and meet its goals in the digital age. We believe that these reform proposals will help renew the nation’s commitment to a copyright law that secures a just balance between private ambitions and the public good.
To this end, we propose four principles that should guide copyright law and appropriately align the interests of individual creators with the interests of the public for whom they create, and state a number of proposals to help see these principles realized.
Guest-blogged by Authors Alliance founding member Ariel Katz, Associate Professor of Law and Innovation Chair in Electronic Commerce at the University
Authors Alliance firmly believes in the importance of open licensing to vibrant and productive scholarship. But open licensing is legally
Guest-blogged by Authors Alliance member Matthew Sag, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Authors Alliance supports Google’s
By Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson. It was nearly a decade ago that the Authors Guild and three of its
Authors Alliance is joining 34 other organizations in telling the negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) not to extend copyright
By Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson. During the Authors Alliance launch at the Internet Archive, I talked about why the
