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
Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org: Copyright Case Before the Supreme Court
The following post by Authors Alliance Copyright Research Assistant Nicolas Charest provides an overview of Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. Today,
New Resource on Law and Literacy in Non-Consumptive Text Mining
Scholars are increasingly using text data mining to uncover previously unknown patterns, trends, or relationships from a collection of textual
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
Dr. Seuss, Picasso, and Grease: Fair Use in the Courts
As a follow up to our recent coverage of the fair use issues in the Chronicle Books v. Audible Inc.
Authors Alliance Supports Limitations and Exceptions and Rights Reversion at SCCR/39
Last week, Authors Alliance participated in the thirty-ninth session of the World Intellectual Property (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and
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