Caged Masterpieces: Chris Hoofnagle Reviews Arthur Leff’s Swindling and Selling
Imagine yourself tracking down a citation, constructing a syllabus, pursuing an intriguing research topic, or reading up on a favorite […]
Thoughts on the Copyright Office Report and Orphan Works
Authors Alliance Co-Founder Pamela Samuelson The Copyright Office report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization is an important step in
Authors Alliance and the Copyright Office Report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
Earlier this month the Copyright Office released its report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. Both of these topics are
Recapping the 1201 DMCA Exemption Hearings
We have blogged several times about Authors Alliance’s effort to obtain an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that
Books and the Valley of the Unassignable
Authors Alliance Co-Founder Tom Leonard In our day of networked information, scholars in North America need not worry about finding
Keeping Your Books Available
Authors Alliance’s Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available helps authors recover rights to their books in order to increase their accessibility.
University of Michigan Press to build digital scholarship platform
A much-needed boost to digital scholarship is in the works at University of Michigan Press, which announced this week that
Fair Use Best Practices and Creative Communities
Guest post by Founding Member Michael Madison For a week about fair use, let me make fair use about authorship,
Why is Fair Use Good for Authors?
Authors Alliance Co-Founder Pamela Samuelson Authors and artists rely on copyright’s doctrine of fair use far more than they may