more on supremes ruling

["Kathy E. Gill" <techwriter -at- cyberwriter -dot- com>]

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http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB993473705172238884.htm
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WASHINGTON -- Dealing a blow to big media companies, the Supreme 
Court said that free-lance writers can control whether articles they 
sold for print in a newspaper or magazine may be reproduced in 
electronic form.

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Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the 
electronic databases reproduce and distribute articles "standing 
alone," and are not part of a collective work that would be shielded 
under federal copyright law. "Both the print publishers and the 
electronic publishers, we rule, have infringed the copyrights of 
free-lance authors," Justice Ginsburg wrote.

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Large publishers had argued that if they lost the case, they probably 
would remove a substantial amount of material from electronic view 
rather than fight with writers over permission and fees.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42816-2001Jun25.html
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http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/080310.htm


http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/25/technology/25CND-SCOTUS.html
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Kathy



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