Authors Alliance
| Founded | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Founders | over 200 founding members |
| Founded at | Berkeley, California |
| Type | 501(c)(3) non-profit organization |
| Focus | Promoting authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read. |
Key people | Pam Samuelson, Thomas Leonard, Molly Van Houweling, Carla Hesse |
| Website | http://www.authorsalliance.org/ |
Authors Alliance is a non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California that facilitates widespread access to works of authorship by assisting and representing authors who want to disseminate knowledge and products of the imagination broadly.[1]
Main issues
The Authors Alliance's main issues are Managing Authors' Rights, Authorship Law & Policy, Reaching Audiences, and Authorial Reputation & Integrity.[2]
Rights reversion
The Author's Alliance has released a how-to guide on authors' rights reversion, "Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why & How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available," a guide that arms authors with the information and strategies they need to revive their books, authored by Nicole Cabrera, Jordyn Ostroff and Brianna Schofield.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ "About Authors Alliance". 25 March 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
- ^ "Issues". 6 April 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
- ^ "KEEPING YOUR BOOKS AVAILABLE". April 9, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
- ^ Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How To Regain Copyright And Make Your Book More Available. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
External links
Authors Alliance at Wikipedia's sister projects
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Intellectual property activism
- Artificial scarcity
- Censorship by copyright
- Copyright infringement
- Copyright troll
- Digital rights management
- Gripe site
- Legal aspects of file sharing
- Mashup
- digital
- music
- novel
- videos
- Monopolies of knowledge
- Music piracy
- Orphan works
- Patents
- biological
- software
- software patent debate
- trolling
- Public domain
- All rights reversed
- Alternative compensation system
- Anti-copyright notice
- Business models for open-source software
- Copyleft
- Commercial use of copyleft works
- Commons-based peer production
- Electronic sell-through
- Free content
- Free-software license
- Libertarian positions
- Open content
- Open-design movement
- Open music model
- Open patent
- Open source
- Prizes instead of patents
- Share-alike
- Video on demand
| Pro-copyright | |
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| Pro-copyleft |
- Steal This Film
- Good Copy Bad Copy
- RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
- TPB AFK
- The Internet's Own Boy
