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Authors Alliance 2024 Annual Report

Authors Alliance celebrated an important milestone in 2024: our 10th anniversary!  Quite a lot has changed since 2014, but our […]

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Revived Class Action Against McGraw Hill: the Importance of Publishing Contracts

At the heart of the Flynn v. McGraw Hill case is a breach of contract claim. The plaintiffs argue that McGraw Hill’s royalty deductions for maintaining its online system violated the terms of the agreement. Central to the argument is the publisher’s promise to ‘publish at its own expense.’ This case serves as a prime example of how important it is to scrutinize the details of a publishing agreement, where the devil often lies.

Copyright Management Information, 1202(b), and AI

In the recent spate of copyright infringement lawsuits against AI developers, many plaintiffs allege violations of 17 U.S.C. § 1202(b) in their use of copyrighted works for training and development of AI systems.  

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