Association of American Publishers (AAP)

"After five years of litigation, we are thrilled to see this important case rest with the decisive opinion of the Second Circuit, which leaves no room for arguments that ‘controlled digital lending’ is anything more than infringement, whether performed by commercial or noncommercial actors, or aimed at authorship that is creative or factual in nature." "As the Court recognized, the public interest—and the progress of art and science that is the mandate of the Constitution’s copyright clause—is served best when authors and their publisher licensees can decide the terms on which they make their works available. We are indebted to Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Wiley, their authors, and the many amici in this case who stood up for copyright, without which we would be a less inspired and less informed society." - Maria A. Pallante

Read the first installment of the 2024 PROSE Award Editors Series, as we speak with Ruth Lane, editor of Getty Publications’ "Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun", the 2024 PROSE Award winner in the category of Nonfiction Graphic Novels:

Listen to AAP President and CEO Maria A. Pallante discuss AI policy with students at Queen Mary University of London:

Thousands of creators denounce the unlawful use of creative and intellectual works by Big Tech for Generative AI training and profits. Protect authorship. Sign here:

Today, AAP joins over 10,500 creators and creative rights organizations in condemning the unlicensed use of creative and intellectual works for training Generative AI, which must not be permitted by law. Read more here:

Hear Lacey Wallace, a researcher with Student Watch talk about the consistent trend in student spending on course materials – now only $340 per year according to the latest @CollegeBoard Report: https://lnkd.in/ex4Ufs_D

AAP’s #PROSEAwards recognize professional and scholarly publishers who make a significant contribution to a field of study. In 2023, our Award for Excellence in Humanities winner was Harvard University Press. To enter this year’s #PROSEAwards visit here: https://lnkd.in/ekYXbYmW

The R.R. Hawkins Award is the #PROSEAwards highest honor, awarded last year to Princeton University Press. To enter for this year's #PROSEAwards and be in competition for the esteemed R.R. Hawkins Award visit: https://lnkd.in/ekYXbYmW

Januškevič Publishing House, Belarus, is this year's AAP International Freedom to Publish Award recipient. Read more about Januškevič's efforts to defend free expression here: https://lnkd.in/gwD9_dc9

It's great to see my colleague Matthew Stratton quoted in this Publishers Weekly article about his First Amendment advocacy work on behalf of Association of American Publishers (AAP). "The Association of American Publishers has also dialed in more closely on the issue. While the hot-button, hyperlocal politics of book banning are a bit harder to confront than issues traditionally within the AAP’s wheelhouse—like federal copyright law, for example—AAP reps say the organization is committed to the fight." "'I would say it’s constant vigilance,' AAP deputy general counsel Matthew Stratton told PW. 'Our strategy is multifaceted. It includes lawsuits, and it includes a legislative strategy. Sometimes we go directly, but we often work with coalitions. But a key part of any legislative strategy is finding the right messenger. And local constituents are always more persuasive than stakeholders without a local presence.'"