Not long ago, the editorial board of the journal Lingua decided that it was time to end business as usual–and they resigned in protest in order to cut ties with Elsevier and establish Glossa, a new open access journal. Lingua, a respected linguistics journal with a distinguished 60-year history, was acquired by Elsevier in the 1980s. Even […]
Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson has published an opinion piece in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education on the substantial benefits the recent fair use ruling in the Google Books case brings to scholarly authors. She outlines four reasons why the ruling in favor of Google in the Authors Guild v. Google case advantages authors and […]
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. Jeff Hecht is an Authors Alliance member and the author of several books on a wide variety of topics pertaining to science and technology, including lasers, […]
In celebration of Open Access Week, we are offering sneak previews of our forthcoming guide, Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How To Make Your Work Openly Accessible. This guide is the second volume in our series of educational handbooks, following on the success of Understanding Rights Reversion. Our goal is to encourage our members […]
In celebration of Open Access Week, we are offering sneak previews of our forthcoming guide, Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How To Make Your Work Openly Accessible. This guide is the second volume in our series of educational handbooks, following on the success of Understanding Rights Reversion. Our goal is to encourage our members […]
In celebration of Open Access Week, we are offering sneak previews of our forthcoming guide, Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How To Make Your Work Openly Accessible. This guide is the second volume in our series of educational handbooks, following on the success of Understanding Rights Reversion. Our goal is to encourage our members […]
In celebration of Open Access Week, we are offering sneak previews of our forthcoming guide, Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How To Make Your Work Openly Accessible. This guide is the second volume in our series of educational handbooks, following on the success of Understanding Rights Reversion. Our goal is to encourage our members […]
Today the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a widely anticipated ruling in favor of the defendants in the Authors Guild v. Google case, marking a major victory for fair use in a lawsuit which has been making its way through the courts for a decade. A brief summary of the litigation highlights the crucial […]
On September 30, the Authors Alliance Rights Reversion team hosted a webinar on Understanding Rights Reversion for ASERL (the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries). The webinar, led by Nicole Cabrera, Jordyn Ostroff, and Brianna Schofield of the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley, offers a step-by-step look at how authors can regain […]
Under a court ruling this week, Warner/Chappell music publishing no longer gets a slice of every “Happy Birthday” cake. After years of litigation, a federal court in California has found that the company does not, in fact, hold copyright to the words of a century-old children’s ditty. “Happy Birthday” is quite possibly the most popular […]
