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

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

Aggregators have contracts with publishers. If publishers do not have the
rights to license downstream, aggregators will have to remove the content
from their databases which will become less useful to their customers. I
cannot see that they will be able to ask for more. It will make their
product less attractive and will handicap their business.

If publishers want to get the rights they may have to pay more but,
leaving aside the payments, there will be a huge bureaucratic workload to
accomplish a complete rights coverage. That costs money. Some extra costs
will get passed on to the customer even if some can be absorbed.

I am interested to learn what John Webb means by the word "excuse". Is
this a philosophical critique of capitalism or just a knee-jerk reaction
to a situation which is not going to help information providers at all
(either publishers or librarians or aggregators) however fair and
reasonable the judgement may have been

Anthony Watkinson



----- Original Message -----
From: John Webb <jwebb@wsu.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: Supreme Court Ruling--Copyright--New York Times v. Tasini


> Any bets that they use it as an excuse to raise prices?
>
> At 05:33 PM 6/25/01 EDT, you wrote:
>
> >FYI....wonder how this will impact journal article aggregators?
> >
> >Bernie Sloan
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gary price [mailto:gprice@gwu.edu]
> >Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:54 AM
> >To: DIG_REF@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> >Subject: [DIG_REF] Supreme Court Ruling--Copyright--New York Times v.
> >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