Welcoming a New Voice in Copyright Reform -- The Authors Alliance

At Public Knowledge we welcomed the debut of the Authors Alliance.

The Authors Alliance is made up of authors who are concerned that many efforts to strengthen copyright have failed them.

We hope the Authors Alliance will help highlight all of those all too easily forgotten aspects of the copyright policy debate. The Alliance is made up of authors -- “creators” in the classic dichotomy -- who don’t necessarily believe that increasing the scope and strength of copyright is the only way to improve it. Of course, that does not mean that members of the Alliance believe that copyright could not benefit from reform.

In fact, the Alliance is debuting four principles to guide copyright reform:

• Further Empower Authors to Disseminate Their Works
• Improve Information Flows About Copyright Ownership
• Affirm the Vitality of Limits on Copyright that Enable Us to Do Our Work and Research
• Ensure that Copyright’s Remedies and Enforcement Mechanisms Protect Our Interests