Re: Canadian Class Action Suit

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Bernard Katz <bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> It may be of interest to the list that a Canadian judge has ruled in
> favour of a class action suit (rare in Canadian jurisprudence) going
> ahead in the area of independent writers preventing Canadian newspaper
> and periodical publishers from using their works in electronic data
> bases, to which they sell public access but for which use they have
> no authorization and provide no compensation to the authors.

Interesting. Any further details? URL? Are the plaintiffs members of the Writers Union of Canada or of some other body or bodies?

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Mike Holderness
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