Five groups tell USTR not to close door on orphan works efforts
Authors Alliance is joining Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knowledge Ecology International, and New Media Rights in calling on […]
Questions About Rights Reversion? We’ve Got Answers!
It may be August, but our rights reversion project shows no signs of slowing down for the dog days of
What will you do after recovering your rights?
Stephen Sugarman’s success story
Authors Alliance is encouraging its members to consider reverting rights to their out-of-print or commercially dormant titles in order to
Thoughts on the Copyright Office Report and Orphan Works
Authors Alliance Co-Founder Pamela Samuelson The Copyright Office report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization is an important step in
Authors Alliance and the Copyright Office Report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
Earlier this month the Copyright Office released its report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. Both of these topics are
Recapping the 1201 DMCA Exemption Hearings
We have blogged several times about Authors Alliance’s effort to obtain an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that
Keeping Your Books Available
Authors Alliance’s Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available helps authors recover rights to their books in order to increase their accessibility.
Fair Use Best Practices and Creative Communities
Guest post by Founding Member Michael Madison For a week about fair use, let me make fair use about authorship,
Why is Fair Use Good for Authors?
Authors Alliance Co-Founder Pamela Samuelson Authors and artists rely on copyright’s doctrine of fair use far more than they may