Managing
Authors’ Rights
We help authors understand and manage the rights necessary to make their works broadly available now and in the future.
Authorship
Law & Policy
We provide education and advocacy for sound policies that help authors create works, make them available, and ensure their preservation.
Reaching
Audiences
We help authors identify platforms, journals, and other tools, techniques, and partners that can help them communicate with their audiences.
Reputation &
Integrity
We work to ensure that authors can make their works widely available without sacrificing their interests in reputation and integrity.

CURRENTLY AT ISSUE: Authors Alliance Petitions for New Exemption to Section 1201 of the DMCA to enable Text and Data Mining Research

Authors Alliance, joined by the Library Copyright Alliance and the American Association of University Professors, filed a petition with the Copyright Office for a new three-year exemption to the DMCA as part of the Copyright Office’s eighth triennial rulemaking process. Our proposed exemption would allow researchers to bypass DRM measures in order to conduct text […]

Continue Reading