UC Berkeley Library’s Scholarly Communication and Information Policy office is partnering with Authors Alliance on our fall semester workshops for new academic authors. The first workshop is coming u...

Authors Alliance and UC Berkeley Library’s Office of Scholarly Communication and Information Policy are pleased to collaborate on this fall semester webinar series for new academic authors. The wor…

UC Berkeley Library’s Scholarly Communication and Information Policy office is pleased to collaborate with Authors Alliance on our fall semester workshops for new academic authors. The workshop serie...

Federal public access policy rests on a legal architecture that most authors and institutions never see: the Federal Purpose License, the Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR Part 200, and the agency policies bu...

EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter states:W...

Federal public access policy rests on a legal architecture that most authors and institutions never see: the Federal Purpose License, the Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR Part 200, and the agency policies bu...

The Office of Management and Budget’s new proposed rules for the administration of federal grants have caused a storm.  Published on May 29 as the largest rewrite of federal grant rules since the U…

Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín has closed the Bartz v. Anthropic case, issuing a 23-page order that grants final approval of the class action settlement, resolves several outstanding administrative …

OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. Five days later, Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, tweeted the following: “I am a stochastic parrot, and so r u”.  The twe…

U.S. Copyright Office Submits Proposed Fee Schedule and Analysis to Congress

As we wrote in May, Elsevier is suing Meta over use of copyrighted works for training Meta’s AI models. It has a set of claims very similar to those in Kadrey v. Meta, but with a different purporte…

Last month, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a notice seeking comment on a proposed new rule.  The rule would make highly consequential changes to the Uniform Guidance for Federal F…

This guest post, by Katherine Klosek of ARL and Stephen Wolfson of the University of Pennsylvania, is the latest in our series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976. To…

What does "exclusive" mean in a publishing contract? Learn how exclusive rights work, what authors give up, and the key questions to ask before signing an agreement.

OMB's proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance could restrict article processing charges, limit journal subscription costs, and reshape how federally funded research is published and accessed. A clo...

An exploration of AI memorization, copyright litigation, and fair use. Examining cases like Kadrey v. Meta and NYT v. OpenAI, this essay argues that fears around memorization risk narrowing public acc...

Copyright lawyers, whether they are practitioners or academics, treat the Copyright Act of 1976 as if it were a sacred text. To a certain extent, we do so because we have internalized the great def…

The fairness hearing in Bartz v. Anthropic took place this afternoon, Thursday, May 14, 2026, before Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín in the Northern District of California. The hearing addressed appr…

A copy of part of the settlement notice sent out to class members The fairness hearing in Bartz v. Anthropic is set for today, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time before Judge Araceli…

Authors Alliance supports Illinois HB5236, the Digital Library Protection Act, and broader state efforts to reform unfair eBook licensing practices affecting libraries, authors, and readers.

Elsevier and other publishers are suing Meta over AI training data. Here’s why the case matters for copyright, access to knowledge, and everyday users.

Authors Alliance submitted a comment to the US Copyright Office in response to its proposed fee schedule (Docket No. 2026–2). We focus our comment on two things: (1) commending the Office for impos…

The Tenth Circuit’s latest decision in the Tiger King case reinforces fair use protections for documentary filmmakers and historical storytelling.

We are releasing today the final report of the Public Interest Corpus project. A stable, citable version is here: The Public Interest Corpus: A Framework for Implementation. Because we want to enco…

Authors Alliance releases a new white paper analyzing institutional copyright policies and article versions, with implications for open access, repository deposit, and scholarly publishing.

A levy in exchange for an exemption was a novel idea, and it had some merit in theory. In practice, I think the main lesson of the AHRA is that a future levy scheme is probably ill-advised. But reg…

A federal judge rescheduled the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement fairness hearing to May 14, 2026. Review major author objections, including publisher favoritism, inadequate compensation, and transparenc...

Section 106A of U.S. copyright law grants limited moral rights of attribution and integrity to creators of certain visual artworks. This post explores the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), its origins, and what it means for artists today.

Investigative journalist Julia Angwin’s lawsuit against Grammarly raises key questions about AI-generated advice, misappropriation of identity, and the right of publicity. Here’s why existing laws may already be sufficient to address these harms.

In The Secret Life of Data, authors Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore how the information we generate every day—email addresses, phone numbers, browsing habits, even biometric data—circulate...

With the generous help of the NYU’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic, we filed an amicus brief today in support of Salt-N-Pepa. The outcome of this case could significantly shape whether S…

As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.

Today, we have discerned differences between rights and limitations, but have forgotten their essential wholeness. Fair use is not a carve-out—it never has been.  It is part of what Section 106 mea…

Authors Alliance releases a new white paper analyzing institutional copyright policies and article versions, with implications for open access, repository deposit, and scholarly publishing.

Today, Congress enacted an unprecedented yet long-overdue law granting authors automatic termination of copyright transfers five years after they are granted, with a six-month notice period during …

With yesterday’s ruling, the Court has closed the door to further development of its own precedent, at least in this area of copyright. The Court held that the Sony and Grokster tests were the begi…

A quick reminder that the MARCH 30 deadline to submit a claim form for the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement is fast approaching. If this is of interest to you, time is of the essence. The settlement w…

If the work of the state is owned by the people as work made for hire, then all of the work of the state is owned by the people—not just the laws, but reports, literary works, sound recordings, pho…

Ambrose Dudley, The Burning of the Library of Alexandria This is the first in a series of essays about the choices that knowledge institutions face as AI reshapes how their collections and resource…

This is the latest in our series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976. To find a list of all the posts in this series, click here. As anyone who has ever lived in…

I am delighted to host the Day Four post for 2026 Fair Use Week titled “Confidently Incorrect: Misunderstanding ‘How Much Is Too Much’ for Fair Use.” In this thoughtful and clarifying essay, Dave Hans...