Rebecca Tushnet is a founding member of Authors Alliance and a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. My work on section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits use of “circumvention” technology such as DVD rippers or, potentially, even screen capture software in order to make video clips for […]
This week is Fair Use and Fair Dealing Week, a time to celebrate, reflect on, and explain these important rights. Authors Alliance is pleased to participate, together with the week’s organizers at the Association of Research Libraries and dozens of other participating organizations. While fair use rights are also valued by educators, consumers, and technologists, […]
by Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson In December 2015, the Authors Guild asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeals ruling that Google had made fair use of the in-copyright books that Google scanned from research library collections for its Book Search project in order to index their contents and serve up […]
A version of the following letter by Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson ran in the Wall Street Journal on February 13 in response to an earlier opinion piece published by the Authors Guild. In the full-length editorial below, Samuelson takes issue with the claim that Google Book Search undermines fair use and hurts authors. Many of […]
When we released our guide to Understanding Open Access this past fall, we published the guide as a digital file under a Creative Commons license with the goal of putting it in reach of anyone who might need it. You can find a free download of the guide on our website. But digital can’t reach […]
We are pleased to feature the following guest post by Brianna Schofield, a teaching fellow at UC Berkeley Law and co-author of our Guide to Understanding Rights Reversion. Joseph S. Nye is an Authors Alliance member, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the author […]
We are pleased to feature the following guest post by Nicole Cabrera and Jordyn Ostroff, students at UC Berkeley Law and authors of our Guide to Understanding Rights Reversion. John W. Kingdon is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is the author of several books on political […]
The following is a guest post by Aleksander Danielyan and Lauren Wong, third-year law students of the Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic (IPAT) at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Over the past year, UCI-IPAT and the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic represented Authors Alliance in a Library of Congress Rulemaking […]
We are happy to announce the release of our Guide to Understanding Open Access—the second in our series of educational handbooks for authors. Building on the success of our Guide to Understanding Rights Reversion, which landed in browsers and on bookshelves earlier this year, our new book provides the most up-to-date information about when, why, […]
The Diary of Anne Frank is expected to go into the public domain in the Netherlands this January. But in a startling and disappointing move the Swiss foundation that controls the rights to The Diary announced that it intends to assert copyright protection for decades after the proper expiration of the term. How? By relying […]
