Last week, we released a guide to Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts. Today, to celebrate Open Access Week, we’re featuring ways that authors can make their books open at different stages of the book’s life cycle and how to shape a publication contract to accommodate these options. As with our guide, we’re highlighting real […]
We are delighted to share our brand-new guide to Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts. Now available to the public (following a special pre-release to our Kickstarter backers), this new guide is the latest addition to our growing library of resources for authors, which also includes educational handbooks on rights reversion, open access, and fair […]
The following post, by Authors Alliance founding member Rebecca Giblin, originally appeared in The Conversation under a CC-BY-ND license. Read more of Giblin’s work on the effects of copyright duration on creators in her recent paper, “A New Copyright Bargain? Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Authors Paid.” Rebecca Giblin, Monash University Last Tuesday Bryan Adams […]
On Thursday, September 6, Authors Alliance Executive Director Brianna Schofield will be joined by Diane Peters, General Counsel at Creative Commons, to present the American Library Association’s monthly CopyTalk webinar. The topic will be “Helping Authors Get Rights Back Through Termination of Transfers.” Creators who enter into publishing agreements are often asked to sign away […]
Thanks to the support of our Kickstarter backers, our institutional co-sponsors, and the ongoing work of Rob Walker and the team at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law, we are happy to announce that our forthcoming guide to Understanding Book Publication Contracts has reached a milestone! But first, we […]
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to resolve the question of what the Copyright Act means when it says that a work must be registered prior to filing an infringement lawsuit. Under the Copyright Act, an infringement action cannot be brought until “registration of the copyright claim has been made” (or, alternatively, registration of the […]
We are thrilled to announce that we reached our goal on Kickstarter late last week! Thanks to each and every one of our backers, “Know Before You Sign on the Dotted Line” was a smashing success. We met our goal of $12,500—with time to spare. And if you haven’t pledged yet, there’s still time! Encouraged […]
We are grateful to professor, consultant, and author Jacqui Lipton for contributing this timely guest post on morality clauses in book publishing contracts. Recent developments in the entertainment industry, notably the #MeToo movement, have led the entire country to focus more on questions of ethics and morality in business, educational, and media settings. The publishing […]
We at Authors Alliance are hard at work on a new guide to Understanding Book Publication Contracts, the fourth volume in our series of educational handbooks that will empower authors to make savvy decisions when negotiating their contracts. Work on the guide is going smoothly, and it would not have been possible without two standout members […]
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is currently considering the Copyright Amendment Bill, an update of the country’s 1978 copyright legislation. The proposed bill includes a provision for termination of transfers. Today, we submitted a letter to South Africa’s Members of Parliament in support of a carefully drafted termination provision that would allow […]
