[WEB4LIB] Database vendors settle with freelance writers - $18 million

[Leo Robert Klein]

On Wed, March 30, 2005 9:54 am, Sloan, Bernie said:
> "The American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Authors Guild, and
> the National Writers Union today announced the filing of a motion for
> court approval of an $18 million settlement in a class action suit they
> and 21 freelance writers filed on behalf of thousands of freelance
> writers whose stories appeared in online databases without their
> consent. They expect preliminary court approval of the settlement within
> the next month."

Well, this is good news if it'll now fill the holes in retrospective full
text databases.

It's somewhat disconcerting to get a "page image" of a newspaper from,
say, the 1960's and see the photos blocked out.  If I were re-writing
history, that's how I'd start.

LEO

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