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What Does “Exclusive” Mean?
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/06/11/what-does-exclusive-mean/
Published: June 11, 2026 13:00
When the owner of, say, a research paper assigns an exclusive license in a work to a publisher, any prior nonexclusive licenses are carved out of the exclusive license by operation of law. That does not make the exclusive license any less exclusive. The…
Grant Accounting as Publishing Policy: OMB’s Proposed Rule Changes
Published: June 4, 2026 13:00
Grant administration rules are not where most authors look for news that affects their work. But, the so-called “Uniform Guidance” published in Title 2 of the CFR has a big impact on how universities account for federal money, from what counts as an…
On Memorization
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/05/19/on-memorization/
Published: May 19, 2026 12:32
“We say that a model has “memorized” a piece of training data when (1) it is possible to reconstruct from the model (2) a (near-)exact copy of (3) a substantial portion of (4) that specific piece of training data. We distinguish memorization from…
The 1976 Act Could Have Been Very Different
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/05/15/the-1976-act-could-have-been-very-different/
Published: May 15, 2026 13:20
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 deference federal courts generally show to all acts of…
Bartz v. Anthropic Fairness Hearing: Observations and Takeaways
Published: May 15, 2026 00:09
The fairness hearing in Bartz v. Anthropic took place this afternoon, Thursday, May 14, 2026, before Judge Araceli MartĂnez-OlguĂn in […]
Bartz v. Anthropic Fairness Hearing: Final Reminder, 91.3% Claims Rate, and updates from the Docket
Published: May 14, 2026 13:02
The fairness hearing in Bartz v. Anthropic is set for today, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time […]
Authors Alliance Backs Illinois HB5236 and the Broader State Ebook Licensing Effort
Published: May 12, 2026 16:50
Authors Alliance is pleased to announce our collaboration with the eBook Study Group on a joint statement supporting Illinois HB5236, the Digital Library Protection Act, which passed the Illinois House without a single no vote and now heads to the Senate.…
Surprise: Elsevier is Suing Meta For You?
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/05/05/surprise-elsevier-is-suing-meta-for-you/
Published: May 5, 2026 17:58
Today in the Southern District of New York, Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill — joined by novelist Scott Turow and his company S.C.R.I.B.E., Inc. — filed a class action against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over the use of copyrighted…
US Copyright Office Will Raise Termination Fee 126%?
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/05/04/new-termination-fee-will-rise-126/
Published: May 4, 2026 12:54
Authors Alliance submitted a comment to the US Copyright Office in response to its proposed fee schedule (Docket No. 2026–2). […]
Tiger King 2: The Tenth Circuit Sequel on Fair Use in Documentary
Published: May 1, 2026 14:56
In May 2024, we filed an amicus brief urging the Tenth Circuit to rehear Whyte Monkee Productions v. Netflix. The previous decision was disastrous for documentary filmmakers, historians, and anyone else who uses photographs, movie clips, or other works as…