On July 31, 2024, the U.S. Copyright Office published Part 1 of its report summarizing the Office’s ongoing initiative of artificial intelligence. This first part of the report addresses digital re…| Authors Alliance
We recently received a question regarding the AI scraping of Institutional Repositories, by which we mean online digital archives that […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
We’re delighted to announce the five recipients of our AI, Authorship, and the Public Interest grant awards. Chosen from a competitive pool of over 160 proposals, these grantees stood out for their thoughtful, innovative projects that align closely with our research priorities and our mission to serve the public interest.| Blog – Authors Alliance
Yesterday Authors Alliance filed an amicus brief in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, the long-running lawsuit between Thomson Reuters, owner of Westlaw (a legal research platform) and ROSS Intelligence, an AI-powered start up legal research platform.| Blog – Authors Alliance
On Thursday, Judge Alsup of the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval of a settlement in the class action […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
This is a post by Syn Ong, AI Policy Researcher at Authors Alliance. Authors increasingly rely on text and data mining (TDM) to analyze large corpora across disciplines. Our new working paper, Beyo…| Authors Alliance
Authors often incorporate existing materials in their works. A historian may excerpt a soldier’s letters to a loved one; an art critic may reproduce a telling detail in a painting; a fiction writer…| Authors Alliance
Our Mission Our Directors Our Team Our Advisory Board Our Founding Members Our Issues Annual Reports Mission The mission of Authors Alliance is to advance the interests of authors who want to serve…| Authors Alliance
Photo by Robert Anasch on Unsplash Today, we’re pleased to announce a new project generously supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The project, “Artificial Intelligence, Authorsh…| Authors Alliance
Authors Alliance members will recall the series of posts we’ve made about the United States’s new copyright small claims court. The below is a post by Dave Hansen and Authors Alliance member Katie …| Authors Alliance
Authors Alliance members will recall the posts we’ve made over the years about the enactment and implementation of a new copyright small claims court, the “Copyright Claims Board,” housed wit…| Authors Alliance
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Yesterday, Authors Alliance submitted a comment to the Copyright Office in response to a Notice of Inquiry regarding developing regulations to govern the copyrig…| Authors Alliance
Kerry Maeve Sheehan We are grateful to Authors Alliance’s Copyright Research Assistant Kerry Maeve Sheehan for this analysis of the 2019 CASE Act. The Copyright Alternative in Small Claims En…| Authors Alliance
“The writing desk in the Medieval Blacksmith” by Four Bricks Tall, licensed under a CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 license Sara Silverman is the author of The Bedwetter, a comedy memoir. Richard Kadr…| Authors Alliance
The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch This is guest post by Amanda Wakaruk, Jane Secker, and Chris Morrison. Amanda Wakaruk has worked as a copyright librarian since 2015 and is currently the Acting He…| Authors Alliance
Authors Alliance Submits Comment to FTC, Highlighting Copyright Misuse on Technology Platforms| Authors Alliance
EDIT: On Sunday evening, Judge Alsup granted the motion for a hearing on Monday, September 8th, but expressed disappointment over […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
For this post, we relied heavily on the help of Charles Horn, self-described “metadata wrangler,” for data analysis. As readers […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
Rayne Zaayman-Gallant / EMBL, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 Authors are navigating change when it comes to copyright and artificial intelligence. We’re committed to developing and sharing practical resources tha…| Authors Alliance
We’ve written before about the use of contracts limiting author’s access to fair use, including how publisher contracts restrict innovation […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
Yesterday, Authors Alliance filed an amicus brief, joined by EFF, ARL, ALA, and Public Knowledge, with the 9th Circuit in support of Anthropic’s petition to be allowed to appeal the class certifica…| Authors Alliance
The Author-Library Alliance: Supporting Fair eBook Legislation Together | Authors Alliance
Late last week Judge Alsup, presiding over the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright AI litigation, granted a motion to certify a class representing authors and rightsholders of nearly 7 million books. If y…| Authors Alliance
In June, we published an FAQ for authors and librarians to give some guidance on how they might respond to NIH’s accelerated implementation of its public access plan, which requires immediate avail…| Authors Alliance
NO FAKES 2025 does not care about actual deception, impersonation, and harm to the average person; instead, it focuses on enabling political censorship and monetization of celebrity likeness.| Authors Alliance
The NIH Public Access Policy is in effect as of July 1, 2025. In response, Authors Alliance and SPARC have created a form to collect information about challenges or questions faced by authors, libr…| Authors Alliance
In May 2025, Connecticut’s legislature passed landmark legislation to address restrictive ebook licensing practices that limit libraries’ ability to serve the public. It aims to ensure ebook licens…| Authors Alliance
“Market dilution” suggests that “using copyrighted books to train an LLM might harm the market for those works because it enables the rapid generation of countless works that compete with the origi…| Authors Alliance
Yesterday, Judge Alsup released his decision on Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment in the fast-moving lawsuit it is defending, brought by three book authors on behalf of a class of millions ob…| Authors Alliance
Structured Asset doesn’t make music nor aim to enrich our cultural life; instead, it uses copyright enforcement as a weapon against artists like Ed Sheeran, and turns a system meant to protect crea…| Authors Alliance
As the high‑profile copyright lawsuits against AI companies proceed, the courtroom drama captures headlines. But I’ve long thought that settlement may be the real outcome to watch. We may already b…| Authors Alliance
Back in October, I asked a simple but unresolved question: “Who represents you in the AI copyright suits?” Now, eight months later, we’re getting closer to an answer—at least for some authors. In B…| Authors Alliance
Our comment urges the agency to examine how copyright enforcement mechanisms on major technology platforms are harming independent creators and undermining the constitutional principles behind copy…| Authors Alliance
[Update On September 10, the D.C. Circuit granted Perlmutter’s request for an injunction pending appeal, reinstating her as Register of Copyrights. The majority reasoned that her firing was “likely…| Authors Alliance
Our law student intern this semester studied the legal and practical challenges facing TDM researchers. She shares her key takeaways.| Authors Alliance
Authors Alliance is pleased to announce the availability of research grants of up to $20,000 to support research projects at the intersection of artificial intelligence, copyright law, and the publ…| Authors Alliance
This blog post reflects on the legislative history and jurisprudence behind Section 9(3) of CDPA—a provision that purports to offer copyright protection for computer-generated works.| Authors Alliance
Last Friday, Katie Fortney and Authors Alliance jointly submitted a comment in response to the USCO’s notice of inquiry on the CCB. In the comment, we acknowledged the CCB’s efforts to create user-…| Authors Alliance
From the latest issue of the Libray of Congress magazine Last night a number of news outlets reported that President Trump had fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. This is very unfortunat…| Authors Alliance
