Distinguishing Trademarks from Copyrights: A Q&A for Authors
Authors Alliance is grateful to Nicolas Charest, Copyright Research Assistant, for researching and drafting this post. There is longstanding confusion […]
Ringing in the New Year with Public Domain Works from 1924
As we ring in the New Year, authors have one more reason to celebrate: another batch of works has entered
Authors Alliance Supports Immediate Access to Federally Funded Research
Media sources report that the Trump Administration is considering a policy to make the results of federally funded research immediately
New Report on Termination Rights for Authors
Last week, Public Knowledge released Making Sense of the Termination Right: How the System Fails Artists and How to Fix
Rights Reversion: Opening Classic Works to New Global Audiences
We are grateful to Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Virginia Tech, for sharing
Q&A With Barbara Kline-Pope on Open Access Publishing Initiatives at Johns Hopkins University Press
Open Access Week 2019 takes place from October 21-27. To mark the occasion, we’re featuring a series of Open Access
Q&A with Calvin Warren: Open Access and Democratizing the Accessibility of Knowledge
Open Access Week 2019 takes place from October 21-27. To mark the occasion, we’re featuring a series of Open Access
Resource Roundup: Negotiating Book Publication Contracts
In October 2018, we released our guide to Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts and made it available as a
Q&A With Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman on “Copyright Law: Cases and Materials”
Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman of NYU Law School recently published their new casebook Copyright Law: Cases and Materials as
My Publisher Agreed to Revert Rights: Now What?
Since we first published our guide to Understanding Rights Reversion in 2015, our rights reversion resources page has been a