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ruled in June 2001 that the writers must be compensated for their digital rights. Further litigation and negotiation led to a settlement that provided payments to the freelancers of up to $ 1,500 per article. The specific amount depended on whether (and, if so, when) an infringed article had been
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The original Authors League of America was organized with headquarters in New York City in order "to protect the rights of all authors, whether engaged in literary, dramatic, artistic, or musical competition, and to advise and assist all such authors". In 1921, the
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allowed for legal protection for Google's scanning project, even though neither side changed its position about whether scanning books was fair use or copyright infringement. The Settlement also would have established a new regulatory organization, the
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and 21 freelance writers. The suit claimed that major electronics databases such as Lexis-Nexis had violated the rights of thousands of freelancers. Their work had originally appeared in newspapers and magazines including
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for its Book Search project. According to the Authors Guild, Google was committing copyright infringement by making digital copies of books that were still protected by copyright. (Google countered that their
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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.
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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
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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
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The settlement between the Authors Guild and Google was rejected in 2011 by a judge at the district court level, who thought the settlement was not in the authors' best interest.
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with the Supreme Court against Google in their long-standing battle over whether copyright laws allow for the search engine to scan and post excerpts from books for the
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suit claiming that Google acted illegally when it scanned millions of copyrighted books without permission, the Authors Guild lost on appeal in the
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In June 2014, the guild announced final approval of an $ 18-million settlement of a class-action suit it brought in 2000, along with the
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On October 28, 2008, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers, and Google announced that they had settled
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The publishers had argued that the databases constituted a fair "revision" of the original print articles, but the
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and that the scanned and posted excerpts works do not harm the authors by having parts of the books online.
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split off as a separate group to represent writers of stage and, later, radio drama.
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magazine and had then been resold to the databases without the writers' permission.
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as president and Judy Blume as vice president. In 2023, the guild's members elected
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Past council presidents of the Authors Guild have included the novelists
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In late December 2015, the Authors Guild filed a petition for
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On September 20, 2005, the Authors Guild, together with
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Professional associations based in the United States
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Authors League of America

501(c)(6) organization
New York City
New York
IFJ
authorsguild.org
Nobel
Pulitzer Prizes
National Book Awards
class-action
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Dramatists Guild of America
Pearl S. Buck
Rex Stout
Scott Turow
Douglas Preston
Madeleine L'Engle
Anne Edwards
Robert Caro
Herbert Mitgang
J. Anthony Lukas
Mary Pope Osborne
William Shirer
Robert Massie
Roxana Robinson
Maya Shanbhag Lang
American Society of Journalists and Authors
National Writers Union
The New York Times

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