Copyright Office Recommends Renewal of the Existing Text Data Mining Exemptions for Literary Works and Films
Authors Alliance is delighted to announce that the Copyright Office has recommended that the Librarian of Congress renew both of […]
Authors Alliance and Allies Petition to Renew and Expand Text Data Mining Exemption
Authors Alliance is pleased to announce that in recent weeks, we have submitted petitions to the Copyright Office requesting that
Open Access and University IP Policies in the United States
Perhaps the most intuitive statement in the whole of the U.S. Copyright Act is this: “Copyright in a work protected
Prosecraft, text and data mining, and the law
Last week you may have read about a website called prosecraft.io, a site with an index of some 25,000 books
Read your open access publishing agreements, or: how you might accidentally give Elsevier or Wiley the exclusive right to profit from your OA article
Reading publishing agreements–even for short academic articles–can be extremely time consuming. For many academic publishers, you’ll find an array of
Athena Unbound and Untangling the Law of Open Access
A few months ago, Authors Alliance and the Internet Archive co-hosted an engaging book talk featuring historian Peter Baldwin and
An Update on our Text and Data Mining: Demonstrating Fair Use Project
Back in December we announced a new Authors Alliance’s project, Text and Data Mining: Demonstrating Fair Use, which is about
Fair Use Week 2023: Looking Back at Google Books Eight Years Later
This post is authored by Authors Alliance Senior Staff Attorney, Rachel Brooke. More recent members and readers may not be
Fair Use Week 2023: How to Evade Fair Use in Two Easy Steps
This post is by Dave Hansen and also posted to the Fair Use Week blog here. Fair use is an
Fair Use Week 2023: Resource Roundup
Authors who want to incorporate source materials into their writings with confidence may find themselves faced with more questions than