The Authors League of America, Inc., was founded in 1912 by a group of authors to protect the copyright, contract, free expression, and tax interests of creators of literary property. This action came in the wake of an adverse copyright decision by a U.S. District Court in 1910. It was not created solely as a litigating group, but it takes an active part to litigate authors' rights or to further any of its other stated purposes: To promote the professional interests of creators of literary, dramatic, and dramatic-musical material and to encourage a better understanding of the profession of writing in the United States. To procure satisfactory domestic copyright provisions and to promote international copyright relations. To guard the constitutional right of authors and dramatists to freedom of expression.