Re: selling e-articles

["Barbara Fister" <fister@gac.edu>]

Yes - the National Geographic case involved photography. Tasini 
found in favor of the authors, though there's still some fallout 
litigation going on; National Geographic was found in favor of 
the NGS, because unlike Tasini it didn't disaggregate the photos 
but reproduced the whole shebang on a CD. 
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2008/07/greenberg.html

Though everything has been simplified: Wal-Mart has recently 
ruled that "copyright is forever" - :o) 
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/12/walmart-you-cant-sca.html

Barbara Fister

Quoting "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>:

> Pippa Smart said:
>
> "The problem that your colleague was thinking of is Tasini, a
> case where the NYT took photographs that it had used in one
> publication, and then created a new database product without the
> permission of the photographers - the problem was the creation of
> a new product."
>
> Didn't the Tasini case involve freelance writers who claimed that
> publishers had violated their copyrights by placing their works
> in third party electronic databases without obtaining permission
> from the freelance writers?
>
> Bernie Sloan
> Sora Associates
> Bloomington, IN