Supreme Court Ruling--Copyright--New York Times v. Tasini

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

FYI....wonder how this will impact journal article aggregators?

Bernie Sloan

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Tasini

The decision itself should be online soon.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/25/scotus.copyright.ap/index.html

>From the article, "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."

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010625/wr/court_media_dc_1.html

>From the article, "The high court, by a 7-2 vote, upheld a ruling that the
publishers must pay free-lance writers, photographers and artists extra for
work included in online and CD-ROM databases or must remove the material."

Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Research and Internet Consulting
Information Consultant, George Washington University
gprice@gwu.edu

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