TAA Issues Position Statement on Generative AI
TAA has issued a position statement regarding the challenges and risks of GenAI to creators, educators and learners.
We are twenty-three American creators’ organizations, representing over 85,000 authors, photographers and artists, united to receive foreign reprographic royalties and direct them to benefit every American creator.
Through Our Member Associations
Non-title-specific foreign reprographic royalties received by ACA are distributed to our Member Associations. These funds are mandated to benefit every American creator, and not just an organization’s members.
ACA funds have supported American creators through:
- Federal copyright advocacy initiatives on behalf of visual and text creators
- Copyright amicus briefs
- Copyright education for creators
- Advocacy with the U.S. Copyright Office
- First Amendment amicus briefs
- Coordination and drafting of judicial amicus briefs in all levels of the courts, on behalf of all photographers
- Advocacy for collective bargaining rights for freelance creators
- Direct support of creators’ First Amendment rights
- Scholarship programs
- Grant programs
- Diversity programs
- Model contracts
- Advocacy regarding the impact of generative artificial intelligence on both visual creators and authors
- Advocacy and litigation opposing book banning efforts
- Authors’ and creators’ access to legal advice
- Educational webinars and seminars available to all creators
- Arts outreach for the incarcerated
- Educational programming including You Tube channels
- Books outreach programs to underserved communities
- Access to music education for all students
- Protection and preservation of indigenous music
Through Our Individual Author Distributions Program
ACA pays title-specific foreign reprographic royalties directly to identified photographers, artists and writers. We are proud to help support a vibrant, growing American arts community. To date, over $3 million has been paid to more than 3,000 creators. Are we looking for you? Visit our Individual Author Distributions Program page to find out.
The Graphic Artists Guild Endorses the Copyright Labeling and Ethical AI Reporting Act
The CLEAR ACT would require generative AI platforms to submit to the Register of Copyrights a notice of the works used in the development of training datasets. The Act also requires the Register to publish a publicly available database of the notices, and gives copyright holders a path to bring civil action if the AI company fails to supply the required notice.
FAA Proposes New Drone Restriction Framework Raising Concerns for Visual Journalists
NPPA will continue reviewing the proposal and evaluating its implications for journalists, including whether sufficient protections exist for First Amendment newsgathering activities and whether the proposed restrictions are adequately limited in scope and duration.
Authors Guild Plaintiffs Win Big in Case Against DOGE
A New York federal court held for the Authors Guild plaintiffs on every count in its case on behalf of individual writers and scholars against DOGE and the NEH for DOGE’s April 2025 mass cancellation at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Celebrated: One Hundred Years of the Minimum Basic Agreement
On April 26, 1926, the Dramatists Guild celebrated the centennial a groundbreaking victory with the negotiation of the Minimum Basic Agreement: the contract that set the industry precedent that allowed for authorial ownership of copyright, no changes in text without permission, the right to be present, and so much more.
SCBWI Invites You to Listen to Their Weekly Podcasts
Hosted by archivist Theo Baker, SCBWI interviews publishing pros as well as award-winning and best-selling children's book writers, illustrators, and translators who inform and inspire about the ins and outs of the children’s book industry. Find out about the craft and creative process behind young adult novels, picture books, middle-grade fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction for kids.
Don’t Compete with AI—Out-Human It
Estimates vary, but some industry trackers suggest that 5,000–7,000 new books appear on Amazon every day, and a growing number are mass‑produced or algorithmically generated. For working authors, differentiation isn’t just about craft anymore; it’s about visibility, connection, and trust.
Givers Fund Grants Extended Application Deadline: October 15!
The SFWA Givers Fund is a pool of money set aside for SFWA to support other organizations’ efforts to promote writing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres in the speculative fiction field. We do this through grants for organizations, entities, and projects that hope to contribute to that field.
NWU Joins Coalition Demanding Release of Journalist Estefany Rodriguez from ICE Detention
We, a coalition of 41 civil-society and press-freedom organizations condemn the arrest and detention of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We urge ICE to release her immediately.
American Photographic Artists Invite You to View their Copyright Education Series on YouTube
APA's Legal Lounge series is available on YouTube.
ASMP’s Comments on the Recent Layoffs at the Washington Post & Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The news, editorial, or documentary photograph is the distillation of truth. Without images so much of our history would be lost and both the horrors and triumphs of life would go unnoticed. We need look no further than the current events taking place in Minnesota and around the country to know with immediacy how vital these journalists are.
NASW joins NABJ and 40+ journalism organizations in calling for defense of the First Amendment
On January 30, 2026, NASW joined the National Association of Black Journalists and more than 40 other journalism organizations in calling out the the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents and "the government’s escalating effort and actions to criminalize and threaten press freedom under the guise of law enforcement."