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 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
Authors Alliance Voices Concerns About the CASE Act
Today, the United States House Committee on the Judiciary is scheduled to review H. R. 2426, the Copyright Alternative in
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
Q&A With Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman on “Copyright Law: Cases and Materials”
Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman of NYU Law School recently published their new casebook Copyright Law: Cases and Materials as
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
My Publisher Agreed to Revert Rights: Now What?
Since we first published our guide to Understanding Rights Reversion in 2015, our rights reversion resources page has been a
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