Authors Alliance

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]

Authors Alliance

Founded	2014
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

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