Authors Alliance (@authorsalliance.bsky.social)

We’re pleased to share a draft of our paper, “Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It”. We are especially grateful to @rachaelgs.bsky.social for co-authoring this paper with us.

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Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It We’ve written before about the use of contracts limiting author’s access to fair use, including how publisher contracts restrict innovation by undermining scholarly AI research. Though contra… https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/08/20/contractual-override-how-private-contracts-undermine-the-goals-of-the-copyright-act-for-libraries-and-researchers-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/