When we released Understanding Rights Reversion this past April, 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. We’re pleased to say that the guide is now available, digitally, through any number of outlets, from NYU libraries […]
We are very pleased to announce that two books by Robert Darnton, The Business of Enlightenment and Mesmerism and the End of Enlightenment in France, are now freely available in their entirety online. Darnton, an Authors Alliance Advisory Board member and an emeritus Professor of History and outgoing University Librarian at Harvard, has, with Authors Alliance assistance, […]
Authors Alliance is joining Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knowledge Ecology International, and New Media Rights in calling on the United States Trade Representative to ensure that the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (or “TPP”) doesn’t prejudice efforts to resolve the ever-worsening orphan works problem. Orphan works—copyrighted works that can’t participate in contemporary culture because […]
It may be August, but our rights reversion project shows no signs of slowing down for the dog days of summer. If anything, we’re gaining momentum in our efforts to support authors seeking to regain control of their work. In April of this year, we published an online guide to rights to reversion, and we […]
Authors Alliance is encouraging its members to consider reverting rights to their out-of-print or commercially dormant titles in order to see those works made more widely available. Stephen D. Sugarman, the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and an Authors Alliance founding member, writes below about […]
Authors Alliance Co-Founder Pamela Samuelson The Copyright Office report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization is an important step in the long road toward resolving the orphan works problem and seeing more of our cultural and intellectual heritage made accessible to the public and to authors who want to build upon this heritage. Authors Alliance […]
Earlier this month the Copyright Office released its report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. Both of these topics are of special interest to Authors Alliance. We have taken public stands in the past to support mass digitization projects, like those at HathiTrust and Google Books that advance our members’ interest in having their works […]
We have blogged several times about Authors Alliance’s effort to obtain an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will preserve authors’ right to make fair use in the digital age. Yesterday, our team testified in support of this effort at a hearing at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Authors Alliance Executive […]
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.
