Publishers Sue to Block Audible Captions
Last Friday, a group of seven publishers—including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan—filed suit […]
Q&A With Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman on “Copyright Law: Cases and Materials”
Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman of NYU Law School recently published their new casebook Copyright Law: Cases and Materials as
New Accessibility Resource: The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and Copyrights
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Virginia Library recently released The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling
My Publisher Agreed to Revert Rights: Now What?
Since we first published our guide to Understanding Rights Reversion in 2015, our rights reversion resources page has been a
Ruth Okediji on the Limits of International Copyright Exceptions for Developing Countries
In a recent article in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (available on SSRN), Ruth Okediji of Harvard
“A More Balanced Approach to Copyright Reform”: Michael Geist On the Statutory Review of the Canadian Copyright Act
In December 2018, Authors Alliance submitted a brief to the Canadian Committee on Industry, Science and Technology in response to
Copyright Law Has a Small Claims Problem. The CASE Act Won’t Solve It
We are grateful to Authors Alliance’s Copyright Research Assistant Kerry Maeve Sheehan for this analysis of the 2019 CASE Act.
Jason Mazzone on Copyfraud and the Lawsuit Against Getty Images
We thank Jason Mazzone, the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for
U.S. Copyright Office Releases Report on Moral Rights
In March 2017, Authors Alliance submitted comments in response to the U.S. Copyright Office’s study of moral rights. We voiced
Accessibility Resource Roundup
April 23 is World Book and Copyright Day, an annual event organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing, and copyright