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]

## Main issues

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The Authors Alliance's main issues are Managing Authors' Rights, Authorship Law & Policy, Reaching Audiences, and Authorial Reputation & Integrity.[2]

## Rights reversion

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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

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* List of works available under a Creative Commons license

## References

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1. ^ "About Authors Alliance". 25 March 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
2. ^ "Issues". 6 April 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
3. ^ "KEEPING YOUR BOOKS AVAILABLE". April 9, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
4. ^ Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How To Regain Copyright And Make Your Book More Available. Retrieved 2013-05-23.

## External links

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Authors Alliance at Wikipedia's sister projects

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Intellectual property activism

Issues|

* 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
* Biopiracy
* Bioprospecting
* 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
* hardware
* software
* Prizes instead of patents
* 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|

* Anna's Archive
* Creative Commons
* Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Free Software Foundation
* Library Genesis
* Open Rights Group
* Organization for Transformative Works
* The Anarchist Library
* The Pirate Bay
* Piratbyrån
* Pirate Party
* Public Knowledge
* Sci-Hub
* Shadow library
* Students for Free Culture
* Z-Library

People|

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

Documentaries|

* Steal This Film
* Good Copy Bad Copy
* RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
* TPB AFK
* The Internet's Own Boy

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Free culture and open content

Concepts and
practices|

| Key concepts|

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

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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
* admissions
* open-door policy
* List of open universities

Journalism|

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

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

Economic principles|

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

Politics and governance|

* Open government
* Open-source governance
* Freedom of information laws by country

Organizations|

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

Activists|

* Tim Berners-Lee
* Alexandra Elbakyan
* Lawrence Lessig
* Peter Murray-Rust
* Douglas Rushkoff
* Richard Stallman
* Peter Suber
* Peter Sunde
* Aaron Swartz
* John Wilbanks

Projects and
movements|

* Anna's Archive
* DIYbio
* Free-culture movement
* Free software movement
* Library Genesis
* Open science movement
* Open Source Ecology
* Open-source software movement
* OpenCores
* OpenWetWare
* The Anarchist Library
* Sci-Hub
* Z-Library

| 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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