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| Formation | 1912 |
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| Legal status | 501(c)(6) organization[1] |
| Purpose | Advocacy |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Membership | 9,000 |
Council President | Maya Shanbhag Lang |
Foundation President | Laura Pedersen |
Key people | Mary Rasenberger, CEO |
| Affiliations | IFJ |
| Website | authorsguild |
Formerly called | Authors League of America |
The Authors Guild is America's oldest and largest professional organization for writers and provides advocacy on issues of free expression and copyright protection. Since its founding in 1912 as the Authors League of America, it has counted among its board members notable authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including numerous winners of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards. It has over 9,000 members,[1] who receive free legal advice and guidance on contracts with publishers as well as insurance services and assistance with subsidiary licensing and royalties.[2]
The group lobbies at the national and state levels on censorship and tax concerns, and it has initiated or supported several major lawsuits in defense of authors' copyrights. In one of those, a class-action suit claiming that Google acted illegally when it scanned millions of copyrighted books without permission, the Authors Guild lost on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
On multiple occasions, Authors Guild has fought the consolidation of the publishing industry through the mergers of large publishers, and it has pressed the publishers to increase royalty rates for ebooks.[3][4]
- ^ a b "General Counsel Job, the Authors Guild Inc". The Copyright Society of the USA. 2016-05-05. Archived from the original on 2016-05-28. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
- ^ "Authors Guild". Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ^ Doreen Carvajal (1998-04-27). "Authors Guild Tries to Block Proposed Merger of 2 Publishers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
- ^ "The Ebook Royalty Mess". The Authors Guild. 2011-02-11. Archived from the original on August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
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