FC: Supreme Court agrees to review Tasini freelance database case

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> Writers' RIGHTS upheld.
>
> The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to review
> <http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/00-201.htm> the 2nd Circuit
> opinion in
> Tasini v. The New York Times Co., 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 36241, 206 F.3d
> 161.n The Court ruled that electronic information vendors cannot include
> a free-lance author's article in their databases without permission even
> though the article may have originated from a print publication covered
> by the database.
> See also: Wired
> <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39996,00.html>.
> See also: Washington Post
> <http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27808-2000Nov6.html>. 




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