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National Writers Union

We fight for all freelance writers & media workers in the digital age. Media contact: [email protected]

The NWU has more than 1500 members and 15 local chapters nationwide. As freelance writers, we may value our autonomy, but we are united in the fact that we work independently. Whether you're a journalist, a book author or a technical or business writer - whether you write poetry or proposals - the NWU is already working to improve your professional life. As we march further into the new millennium

, our work has become more crucial than ever. With the consolidation of power into the hands of ever-larger corporate entities and with the advent of technologies that facilitate the exploitation of a writer's work, the individual writer has become increasingly disenfranchised. Now, more than ever, writers need an organization with the clout and know-how to protect our interests. One that will forge new rules for a new era, fight hard and take chances. One that goes to bat, goes to court, and goes to the streets, if need be, to protect writers' rights. Let's face it: there's more to being a professional writer than just writing well. Talent and experience won't protect you from inept or unscrupulous employers, those who misuse your work, demand rights that are yours, underpay, pay late or won't pay at all. The National Writers Union defends its members and all writers by fighting to win rights, fair compensation, and just plain dignity...and we succeed!

07/27/2026

"It’s time for the Copyright Office to stop delaying, stop wasting time on minor tweaks, stop putting the interests of publishers ahead of creators, and work with us to develop a simple, affordable process that would, for the first time, allow us to register copyright in our websites and have a chance to take illegal Web scrapers to court." https://nwu.org/copyright-web-content

In response to the latest rulemaking proposal from the U.S. Copyright Office, the NWU has formally requested that the Copyright Office "establish an affordable, minimally burdensome procedure and schedule of fees for registration of Web content, including entire websites, regardless of the number of...

07/27/2026

TONIGHT at 7pm PT, NWU's Edward Hasbrouck is joining is joining Steve Martini of the Writers Guild for a talk on writers, artists, media monopolies, and the role of AI - and what we can do about it:

The drive by the tech billionaires to use AI to capture and scrape data from the internet and use this to profit from the data threatens all workers including writers and artists. This pane will look at the effect of AI in these industries and what workers and people can do about it.

07/24/2026

05/15/2026

Google has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court for allegedly misusing recordings of their voices to train the artificial intelligence models ‌that power Google Assistant, Gemini Live and other systems that replicate hum...

04/21/2026

Big media is contributing to the rise of authoritarianism and threatening workers across the media industry. Join us on April 27 to build alliances so we can create a civic media ecosystem outside of major media monopolies. Register: bit.ly/FightBigMedia

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+12122540279

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http://www.nwu.org/

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