Copyright Advice

Get answers to all your questions about U.S. copyright requirements and protection.

The Authors Guild legal team advises members on all sorts of copyright matters, including:

  • Questions on copyright registration, renewal, and duration
  • Steps you can take if someone has infringed your copyright
  • Obtaining permission to use another’s work
  • Determining whether use of another’s work is fair use
  • Guidance on terminating an old publishing agreement under copyright law termination provisions

Members: Log in to submit a request to our legal department.

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The AG legal team has helped me too many times to count over my decades-long membership. I have always found their advice to be accurate, sensible, and highly useful. They are among the main reasons I have never considered leaving the Authors Guild. Thank you, AG and AG legal team!
Robert Spencer Knotts
Member since 2001

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