Authors Alliance

Last week the Copyright Claims Board issued its very first judgment. It came in a case about an attorney who reused a photograph on his website without permission. It's a relatively straightfoward case, but perhaps with a few early lessons about how the CCB will operate.

Read our post about it here: https://authorsalliance.substack.com/p/the-first-copyright-small-claims

As we wrap up
#FairUseWeek, check out this new post by Authors Alliance Senior Staff Attorney
Rachel Brooke on a seminal fair use decision, Authors Guild v. Google, and how it's changed and continues to impact our fair use landscape.

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2023/02/24/fair-use-week-2023-looking-back-at-google-books-eight-years-later/

Check out our #FairUseWeek
post for today:

"How to Evade Fair Use in Two Easy Steps"

In which we discuss the problem of contractual override of fair use as well as options that the courts and Congress have to fix it

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2023/02/23/fair-use-week-2023-how-to-evade-fair-use-in-two-easy-steps/