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[Fwd: FW: Supreme Court Rules on Tasini vs. New York Times]

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  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:39:00 +0100 (BST)
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From: Eamon Fennessy <efennessy@ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: FW: Supreme Court Rules on Tasini vs. New York Times
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The Supreme Court decision simply confirms what the law
has said for the past several decades.
    1. Anyone who is using someone else's intellectual
property online or wherever had best get permission.
    2. Publishers like the NY Times will start removing
old articles from online databases for which no
permission has been obtained.
    3. Some publishers have been obtaining permissions
since the mid 1990's as this case which I believe
started in 1993 was wending its way through the courts.
    4. The decision confirms you cannot take anything
for granted and for those clearing houses which offer
licenses to users for works which are to be put online
had best be sure they (the clearinghouses) have the
rights to offer online use to their clients. They (the
clearinghouses) cannot assume publishers have the rights
which they are conferring on those clearinghouses.

Eamon T. Fennessy
The Copyright Group
P.O. Box 5496
Beverly Farms, MA 01915

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> FYI,
>
> Kurt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gail Hodge [mailto:Gailhodge@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:35 PM
> To: CENDI-PA@DTIC.MIL
> Subject: FYI:Supreme Court Rules on Tasini vs. New York Times
>
>
> In a ruling that is likely to have a major impact on authors, publishers,
> and
> secondary database producers, the Supreme Court has ruled on the case of
> Tasini vs. New York Times.
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/25/scotus.copyright.ap/index.html
>
> From the CNN article:
>
>  "The court ruled 7-2 that compilation in an electronic
> database is different from other kinds of archival or library storage of
> material that once appeared in print. That means that copyright laws require
> big media companies such as The New York Times to get free-lancers'
> permission before posting their work online."
>
> The decision itself is likely to be available online soon.  While the
> article
> signals out big media companies and free lancers, this is expected to have
> an
> impact on author/publisher relations in general.  It should be noted that
> many publishers have already gone to so called "Martian" permissions where
> they ask for copyright transfer everywhere, anytime, and in any media.  It
> isn't clear what the impact might be on permissions done under the old
> regime
> before permission and copyright transfer agreements included electronic
> versions.  Some anticipate that rather than try to get permissions from
> authors of old material, publishers may just remove that material from
> electronic databases.
>
> Gail


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