Re: Re: Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book"

Tasini had to do with the rights of free lance writers (independent contractors) for the New York Times whose articles had been licensed by the NYT to electronic databases such as Lexis/Nexis. The NYT claimed that they were exercising their right in copyright law as the creator of a compilation to publish a "revision" of the compilation in the absence of an agreement covering the specific situation. The Supreme Court held that this was not just a revision or republication of the compilation because the articles did not appear together in compiled form in Lexis, but rather were retrieved individually by text searches. I presume that the NYT has now rewritten its contracts for use with freelance contributors, but I do not know what the NYT has done about the freelance material that had been previously licensed to Lexis or other electronic databases.

John

At 11:15 AM 11/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Keith Tabor asks about contracts vis-à-vis *Tasini*.
>
>Keith, Tasini had to do with periodicals, not books. In trade books,
>authors retain the copyright. (There are exceptions, which have been
>exceptions from the get-go, mainly technological series.) Take a look at
>the books in the stores.
>
>--DS
>
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