Educational Fair Use Update: Congressional Hearings and Cambridge University Press v. Patton
Pam Samuelson & Mike Wolfe At Authors Alliance we keep a close eye on what’s going on in fair use […]
Principles and Proposals for Copyright Reform
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.
Michael Carroll on Author Addenda
Founding Authors Alliance member Michael Carroll, from American University’s Washington College of Law, explains how addenda can help modify publishing
Lydia Loren on Semaphore Press
Authors Alliance Founding Member Lydia Loren from Lewis and Clark Law School explains how her publishing company, Semaphore Press, is
Making copyright work for authors
Authors Alliance Co-Founder Molly Van Houweling On Oct. 10 I traveled to Columbia Law School to attend and speak at
Preview: Advisory Board Member Michael Eisen on Open Access
We had the chance to sit down with Authors Alliance advisory board member Michael Eisen and talk about Open Access
Announcing our Open Access FAQ
It’s now Open Access Week, an annual event that celebrates and promotes open access to scholarship and research. Open access
Open Access FAQ
by Pamela Samuelson and Molly Van Houweling, Authors Alliance Co-Founders. Last updated Oct. 20, 2014. What is “open access”? Who
UC Press Pioneers the Scholarly Monograph’s Open Access Future
By Authors Alliance co-founder Tom Leonard, University Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. Last Spring the view out the
Authors Alliance Members Lead Push toward Open and Accessible Legal Education
Textbooks are essential instructional tools but they’re not without problems. Most familiar to students is the problem of cost: textbook