Making Copyright Work for Authors Who Write to Be Read

Citation: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling (2015) Making Copyright Work for Authors Who Write to Be Read. Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (RSS)
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Summary

Sometimes authors assign copyright to publishers and are unable to use their own works. There are high costs to knowing and negotiating different arrangements, but education and other reforms may help authors be "CEOs of their own imaginations" and manage their own intellectual legacies.

Theoretical and Practical Relevance

"An additional reform that is not specifically mentioned in the Authors Alliance proposals but that I personally favor would be putting a thumb on the scale in favor of fair use when the user of the work is also its author."