Authors Alliance

Authors AllianceFounded| 2014

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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/
A 2018 guide to negotiating author rights

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]

## Contents

* 1 Main issues
* 2 Rights reversion
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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

* List of works available under a Creative Commons license

## References

1. ↑ "About Authors Alliance". 25 March 2014. http://www.authorsalliance.org/about/. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
2. ↑ "Issues". 6 April 2014. http://www.authorsalliance.org/our-issues/. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
3. ↑ "KEEPING YOUR BOOKS AVAILABLE". April 9, 2015. http://www.authorsalliance.org/2015/04/09/keeping-your-books-available/. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
4. ↑ Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How To Regain Copyright And Make Your Book More Available. https://unglue.it/work/144889/#. Retrieved 2013-05-23.

## External links

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Intellectual property activism

Issues|

* Artificial scarcity
* Copyright infringement
* Digital rights management
* Gripe site
* Legal aspects of file sharing
* Mashup
* digital
* music
* videos
* Monopolies of knowledge
* Music piracy
* Orphan works
* Patents
* biological
* software
* software patent debate
* trolling
* Public domain

Concepts|

* 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
* Open-source hardware
* Open-source software
* Prize system
* contests
* Share-alike
* Video on demand

Movements|

* Access to Knowledge movement
* Anti-copyright
* Cultural environmentalism
* Free-culture movement
* Free software movement

Organizations|

| Pro-copyright|

* Copyright Alliance

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Pro-copyleft|

* Creative Commons
*   * Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Free Software Foundation
* Open Rights Group
* Organization for Transformative Works
* The Pirate Bay
* Piratbyrån
* Pirate Party
* Public Knowledge
* Sci-Hub
* Students for Free Culture

People|

* Cory Doctorow
* Alexandra Elbakyan
* Rick Falkvinge
* Lawrence Lessig
* Richard Stallman
* Peter Suber
* Peter Sunde
* Aaron Swartz

Documentaries|

* Steal This Film (2006, 2007)
* Good Copy Bad Copy (2007)
* RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)
* TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)
* The Internet's Own Boy (2014)

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Free-culture and open-source movements

Concepts and
practices|

| Key concepts|

* Commons-based peer production
* Crowdsourcing
* Gratis versus libre
* Open collaboration
* Openness
* Participatory culture
* Sharism

| Social peer-to-peer processes|

* Peer-to-peer banking
* Peer-to-peer carsharing
* Peer-to-peer lending
* Peer-to-peer ridesharing

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Research and science|

* Citizen science
* Open science
* Access
* Notebook science
* Research
* Science data
* Plan S

Data, information,
and knowledge|

* Free content
* Knowledge commons
* Open communication
* Open knowledge
* Content
* Data

Communication
and learning|

| Media|

* Collaborative writing
* Democratic media
* Open publishing
* Participatory media
* Peer review

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Education|

* Open education
* Educational resources
* University
* Admissions
* Open-door academic policy

Journalism|

* Citizen media
* Citizen journalism and Wiki journalism
* Open-source journalism

Economy, production,
and development|

| Products|

* Free and open-source software - FOSS
* Free/Libre software
* Open-source software
* Open-design movement
* Robotics
* Open gaming
* Open-source architecture
* Open-source hardware

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Economic principles|

* Gift economy
* Open innovation
* Open patent
* Open standard
* Sharing economy

Politics and governance|

* Open government
* Open-source governance

Organizations|

* Creative Commons
* Free Software Foundation
* Open Architecture Network
* Openmod initiative
* Open Knowledge International
* Open Rights Group
* Open Source Initiative
* Open Web Foundation
* P2P Foundation
* Pirate Party
* PLOS
* SPARC

Activists|

* Tim Berners-Lee
* Alexandra Elbakyan
* Cody Wilson
* Lawrence Lessig
* Peter Murray-Rust
* Douglas Rushkoff
* Richard Stallman
* Peter Suber
* Peter Sunde
* Aaron Swartz
* Matthew H. Todd
* John Wilbanks

Projects and
movements|

* DIYbio
* Free-culture movement
* Free software movement
* Open science movement
* Open Source Ecology
* Open-source software movement
* OpenCores
* OpenWetWare
* Sci-Hub

| Tools|

* Licenses
* Creative Commons
* GPL
* Definition Docs
* Free Cultural Works
* Free Software
* Open
* Open Source
* Open Data Indices
* Open educational resources
* Open music model
* Open Web movement

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