FREELANCE RIGHTS ALERT: Use Our 'Takedown Forms' to Block Future Use of Your Works

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Here’s the text of my declaration in support of objectors’ attorney Charles Chalmers’ motion for discovery related to approval of the copyright class action settlement. It is being filed with the court today.

Use Our ‘Takedown Forms’ to Block Future Use of Your Works http://freelancerights.blogspot.com/2005/09/use-our-takedown-forms-to-block-future.html

The class notice doesn’t tell you this, but the settlement will give away the rights in perpetuity to all of your works already acquired illegally by the defendant databases.

This disgraceful provision, which we call the License by Default, applies whether or not you file a claim. It’s the No. 1 of many reasons why we objectors believe the settlement will not hold up under appeal, should Judge Daniels approve it on September 27.

But if we don’t defeat this settlement you’ll still have been forced to give the defendants -- and anyone these outlaws choose -- the right to reuse your works forever and ever. Whether or not you even filed a claim.

For this reason, it’s extremely important for all freelance writers to send to the settlement administrator paperwork denying future use of your works. Here we provide the appropriate language.

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