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The Guild urges publishers to relinquish long-out-of-print settlement claims to authors and compensate authors excluded by publishers' contractual registration failures. It says it lacked access to the downloaded-work dataset.
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The Guild urges publishers to relinquish long-out-of-print settlement claims to authors and compensate authors excluded by publishers' contractual registration failures. It says it lacked access to the downloaded-work dataset.
These are advocacy demands, not a new court order or an automatic rule giving every author the whole award. Actual allocations and contractual ownership require separate verification.
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The Guild urges publishers to relinquish long-out-of-print settlement claims to authors and compensate authors excluded by publishers' contractual registration failures. It says it lacked access to the downloaded-work dataset.
SRC-0428Statement lines 233–260.
Authors Guild · EN · 2026-09-18
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