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

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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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