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For Warner, It Looks Like “Happy Birthday” Blues

Copyright Office Offers Solutions to Orphan Works, Mass Digitization

Reps. Chu and Marino Release Draft of CODE Act for Copyright Office Modernization

Congress Wraps Up Copyright Hearings; Here’s What’s at Stake for Authors

Library of Congress’s and Copyright Office’s IT Needs Upgrade, Says GAO

Highly Anticipated SCOTUS Decision Keeps Copyright Law Technology-Neutral

Multimillion Settlement of Freelance Suit Against Electronic Databases Granted Final Approval

Narrow Fair Use Ruling Permits Limited Library Uses, Shoots Down Replacement Copying

The Anti-Google Mass Book Digitization Campaign Goes Global

Authors Guild: Amazon was Google's Target

Guild to Call for National Digital Library in Congressional Testimony Today

End of the Road for Siegel and Shuster Heirs' "Superman" Battle? A Cautionary Tale

House Committee to Tackle Fair Use and DMCA's Takedown Rules

Guild Lawyers Urge Judge to Reject Google's Fair Use Claim, Uphold Authors' Rights

Guild Tells Court: Reject Google's Risky, Market-Killing, Profit-Driven Project

Guild Disputes Google's Fair Use Claim, Says Scanning Project Puts Authors At Risk

Court Finds Cyberlocker Hotfile Liable for Housing Stolen Content in First of Its Kind Decision

Report Calls for Finding 'Sweet Spot' On Internet Policy Protecting Copyright and Creativity

Novelist on Australia's Proposal to Adopt Fair Use Exception: Have the Decency to Call It Theft

Authors' Orphan Works Reply: The Libraries and Google Have No Right to "Roll the Dice with the World's Literary Property"

Remember the Orphans? Battle Lines Being Drawn in HathiTrust Appeal

Congress Begins Copyright Review, Hoping for Consensus, Civility

Does Influential Report Get Copyright's Goals Right?

Are Copyright Laws "Still Working in the Digital Age"? House Judiciary Chair Pledges Comprehensive Review

Fair Use Ruling: Artist Sufficiently Transformed 25 of 30 Photos

"Orphan Works" Unresolved in HathiTrust Ruling

Plaintiffs Seek Fair Use Ruling in Mass Book Digitization Case

Authors Groups From U.K., Canada, Norway and Sweden Join Authors Guild, Australian Society of Authors, and Quebec Writers Union in Suit Against HathiTrust

University of Michigan suspends HathiTrust Orphan Works Project. Claims “proposed uses of orphan works are lawful,” and promises a reboot.

Sidney Hook, authors with papers at archives, and more...

Orphan Row Update: Another Living Author, Two Books in Print, Literary Estates Held by Charities, Etc.

Two more? Another professor emeritus (Stanford) and a Pulitzer winner who left rights to Harvard

Found one! We re-unite an author with an “orphaned work.”

Authors Guild, Australian Society of Authors, Quebec Writers Union Sue Five U.S. Universities

Bridging "Broad Divides," Proposed Settlement May Show Path to Virtual Library of Out-of-Print Books

Songwriters and Authors Unite to Protect Termination Rights

Google's "Renegade Notion of Eminent Domain"

Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing “Massive Copyright Infringement”