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Authors Alliance is joining Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knowledge Ecology International, and New Media Rights in calling on […]

Authors Alliance Co-Founder Pamela Samuelson The Copyright Office report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization is an important step in

Earlier this month the Copyright Office released its report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. Both of these topics are

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.

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 Molly Van Houweling. Yesterday Judge Richard Posner, writing for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the