By: Staff Reports Tasini vs. The New York Times Reaches High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear an appeal on the
Tasini vs. The New York Times case on which a U.S. appeals court
earlier ruled that publishers must seek free-lancers' permission prior to posting
their work in electronic databases.
The justices agreed to review the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decision that
publishers must pay free-lance writers, photographers, and artists extra for work
included in databases.
The New York Times appealed the earlier decision, along with Tribune
Co.'s Newsday, Time Warner Inc.'s Time Magazine Inc., Reed Elsevier's
Lexis/Nexis, and Bell & Howell's University Microfilms International.
Jonathan Tasini, president of the National Writers Union, and five other free-
lancers filed a lawsuit against the publishers in 1993. The free-lancers claimed
copyright infringement when the media companies reproduced their work online
without permission.
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