August 2025 – Authors Alliance
Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It| Authors Alliance
Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It| 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
So far this year, Authors Alliance has worked tirelessly to ensure that the voices of authors who write to advance […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
This is a guest post by Hana Khan-Tareen, who is a Legal Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. We appreciate her insight on how authors can best protect their rights.| Blog – Authors Alliance
Last month, a diverse set of stakeholders gathered at New York University Law School to contribute to an implementation plan […]| 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
Below is an interview with Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS (Public Library of Science) discussing the impact of AI on publishing […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
In an earlier post, we shared details from Judge Alsup’s decision on Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment in Bartz v. […]| Blog – 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
An Updated NIH and Publisher Guidance: What Authors Need to Know about NIH’s Public Access Policy| 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 availability of sponsored research articles upon publication. Our FAQ from June is still good advice, but since then both the NIH and several publishers have updated their guidance and so we are giving some additional information about the latest here.| Blog – 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
Scholars who engage in Text and Data Mining (TDM) research face a unique set of challenges. Over the years, the Authors Alliance has worked closely with researchers who engage in text data mining, …| 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
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Future Knowledge, a new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance. Future Knowledge is a continuation and expansion of our Book Talk webinar se…| 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
Yesterday evening Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter filed suit against a number of individuals involved in both her attempted removal and replacement, including Todd Blanche “in his cap…| 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
Authors Alliance’s Dave Hansen and Yuanxiao Xu in Studio Ghibli style In late March, OpenAI made it possible to “Ghiblify” yourself — using its newest version of ChatGPT, with updated image generat…| Authors Alliance
