Announcing the “Text and Data Mining: Demonstrating Fair Use” Project
We’re very pleased to announce a new project for 2023, “Text and Data Mining: Demonstrating Fair Use,” which is generously […]
US Copyright Office Defends Artists’ Rights to Terminate their Copyright Transfers
UPDATE: You can find Authors Alliance’s comment on the Copyright Office’s proposed rulemaking here. “Termination of Transfer,” is a legal
Top Gun and Termination of Transfer
Termination of transfer has been in the news lately with a dispute over the release of a sequel to the
Fair Use and Literary Parodies
Fair use is one of the more dynamic topics in copyright law lately—the Supreme Court has issued decisions or agreed
Fair Use Week 2022: Resource Roundup
Authors who want to incorporate source materials into their writings with confidence may find themselves faced with more questions than
Q&A with Peter Kaufman: Open Access Publishing and Access to Knowledge
In today’s post, as a part of our series of open access success stories that spotlight noteworthy openly accessible books
Announcing the Authors Alliance Guide to Third-Party Permissions and How to Clear Them
Today, Authors Alliance is thrilled to announce the release of a brand new educational guide for authors: Third-Party Permissions and
Obtaining Image Permissions For Your Book: An Author’s Perspective
Since we first published this guest post by Authors Alliance member Lois Farfel Stark in August 2018, Authors Alliance has
Update: Fair Use in the Courts in 2021
In April, we published a post on two major fair use decisions from this year: Google v. Oracle and The
Quantifying Copyright Reversion
Authors Alliance is grateful to Cory Doctorow for sharing this piece, originally published on Pluralistic.net under a CC BY license.