What contractual terms are best for scholarly authors?
How can authors regain copyrights from publishers to distribute out-of-print books?
Why would authors want to make any work open access?

Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson and Executive Director Michael Wolfe will discuss authorship law and author rights, including:

• Best terms for book contracts
• How and when open access benefits authors
• What to do about out-of-print titles
• Resources for authors self-managing rights

Authors Alliance is a membership-driven nonprofit organization advocating for authors who write to be read. Authors Alliance demystifies and simplifies publishing contracts, supports copyright reform and litigation, and produces guides about legal issues authors are likely to encounter.

Pamela Samuelson is a co-founder of Authors Alliance and the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam. Michael Wolfe is the Executive Director of Authors Alliance and a Copyright Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
More about Authors Alliance and Writing to be Read @ NYPL  and RSVP here. The event is free and open to the public at the NYPL Berger Forum, 5th Ave at 42nd St., November 3, 6 – 8 pm.

Submit questions in advance, if you want, to info@authorsalliance.org.