FC: Supreme Court sides with writers over publishers in database case

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 08:04:56 PDT

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    Background on New York Times v. Tasini case:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=tasini
    
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    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44778,00.html
    
    High Court Rules For Free-Lancers
    Associated Press
    7:10 a.m. June 25, 2001 PDT
    WASHINGTON -- Ruling against big media companies in an information age 
    dispute Monday, the Supreme Court said free-lance writers may control 
    whether articles they sold for print in a regular newspaper or magazine may 
    be reproduced in electronic form.
    
    The court ruled 7-2 that compilation in an electronic database is different 
    from other kinds of archival or library storage of material that once 
    appeared in print. That means that copyright laws require big media 
    companies such as The New York Times to get free-lancers' permission before 
    posting their work online.
    [...]
    
    
    
    
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