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Firms allowed to print Cuban works
Academic publishers claimed victory on Wednesday when the U.S. government relaxed rules about printing works from Cuba and other blacklisted countries in response to a lawsuit filed in September. More
Treasury Department Changes Regulations
In September 2004, publishing trade groups and authors' organizations filed suit in federal court to strike down regulations of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control that effectively… More
Nobel Peace Prize winner joins battle for free speech
Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, has filed suit against the U.S. Treasury Department in federal court in New… More
Curb the Thought
The Treasury Department's bone-headed decision not to allow U.S. publishers to edit the works of writers from trade sanctioned countries has ended up in court. One trusts the Constitution,… More
PEN, publishers file suit to overturn information restrictions
In a challenge to regulations governing the publication of informational materials from countries subject to U.S. trade embargoes, PEN American Center today joined the Association of American Publishers Professional… More
Salman Rushdie on Terrorism, Intellectual freedom, and the Patriot Act
Salman Rushdie's book Midnight's Children, published in 1981, won the Booker Prize and brought him international fame. But it was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, that the Indian-British… More
Rushdie mobilizes American writers against Bush
For fifteen years, Salman Rushdie had to hide for having written what some refused to read. These days, he wishes to denounce another form of censorship in his adopted… More
Fifth biennial conference of Writers in Prison Committee
"Many of us have been asking, is this what we went to jail for? What has all our struggle come to? A mere clearing of the path for another… More
Ariel Dorfman: LibertyŸ??s language
Ariel DorfmanLiberty's LanguageIn dark times like these, writers must light a beacon. Recently, some sought the right words.NEW YORK - As the ultimate guardians of language and its complexity,… More
First Amendment problems remain in wake of latest OFAC pronouncement
According to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), and PEN American Center, a letter sent by the director of the Office of… More
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