On Thursday, September 6, Authors Alliance Executive Director Brianna Schofield will be joined by Diane Peters, General Counsel at Creative Commons, to present the American Library Association’s monthly CopyTalk webinar. The topic will be “Helping Authors Get Rights Back Through Termination of Transfers.”

Creators who enter into publishing agreements are often asked to sign away their copyrights before anyone knows their worth and in circumstances where they have little choice but to acquiesce. In the U.S., statutory termination of transfer provisions allow creators to regain copyrights they signed away decades ago. With rights back in hand, creators can get their works in front of new audiences by, for example, sharing their works using Creative Commons licenses or by negotiating new agreements with publishers. In this CopyTalk, Authors Alliance and Creative Commons will showcase our Termination of Transfer tool at rightsback.org and related resources that help authors understand and exercise termination of transfer rights.

This free webinar will take place at 2:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM Pacific. For more information and to register, visit the CopyTalk event page. We hope you’ll join in for this important discussion of authors’ rights!