National Writers Union in San Francisco Examiner

"Writers' on-line rights hot topic at conference" -- that's the headline on a story on the front business page of the Thursday, February 29, San Francisco Examiner. In the article (which is pegged to the opening of the Institute for Alternative Journalism's Media and Democracy Congress in San Francisco), Examiner media writer David Armstrong reports on *Tasini v. Times* -- the landmark federal copyright infringement suit by National Writers Union president Jonathan Tasini and other NWU members against a group of publishers and database operators led by The New York Times and Lexis/Nexis. The story also acknowledges the protest spearheaded by the NWU Bay Area Local against a new all-rights contract for freelancers at the Examiner itself, which is owned by the Hearst Corporation.  

The article can be accessed at the Examiner's World Wide Web site: <http://www.sfgate.com>.  

Irvin Muchnick
Assistant Director
National Writers Union
<irvmuch[_at_]netcom.com> Received on Fri Mar 01 1996 - 07:17:23 GMT