Authors Alliance celebrated an important milestone in 2024: our 10th anniversary! 

Quite a lot has changed since 2014, but our mission remains the same. We exist to advance the interests of authors who want to serve the public good by sharing their creations broadly.  I’m pleased to share our 2024 annual report, where you can find highlights of our work this year to promote laws, policies, and practices that enable authors to reach wide audiences.

Our success in 2024 was largely due to the wonderful collaboration and support we have from our members. You’ll see in the report a number of ongoing projects and issues we are working to address: legal questions about open access publishing, rights reversion at scale, supporting text data mining research, addressing contractual override of fair use,  AI and copyright, and more. As we look to 2025, I would love to hear from you if you have a special interest in any of these projects and would like to contribute your ideas, time, or expertise to help us tackle them.

I’m grateful for those of you who contributed financially to make 2024 a success. Authors Alliance is funded almost entirely by gifts and grants, and so we truly rely on you. As we end the year, I hope you will consider giving if you haven’t done so already. You can donate online here.

Thank you,

Dave Hansen
Executive Director