Word: copyright
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...that freelancers had written from 1980 to 1995. For freelancers who don't want their work expunged, the Times set up a Web page where they can waive their rights to past articles. Says Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis: "We don't want to be considered in willful violation [of copyright laws] now that the court has ruled...
...writers are willing to deal, the publishers have shown scant interest in doing so. "My fervent hope is that the decision spurs companies to sit down with us and negotiate," says union president Jonathan Tasini, who plans to ask for as much as $600 billion in damages and copyright fees when a federal court considers penalties later this year. "The last thing I want to do, although we are prepared to do it, is to litigate this for the next five years." As any freelancers will tell you, they're used to waiting forever to get paid...
...fairness and realism is good for all the participants." Artnet.com recently struck a deal with Ebay, which will provide its customers free access to part of artnet.com's database. The site displays pictures of the artwork and links to galleries. Artprice.com, in contrast, doesn't use images to avoid copyright issues and does not provide links to galleries or sell art directly. An expert at Sotheby's says she uses both, and finds Artprice.com to be more extensive - and expensive...
...Hoffenberg, Southern's best-remembered comic novel, "Candy" (1964) had a curious history: first published in 1958 under the pseudonym "Maxwell Kenton" by the Paris-based Olympia Press (a firm that printed trite erotica and debuted groundbreaking works like "Lolita" and "Naked Lunch"), the book fell into a strange copyright limbo on these shores. In interviews, Southern quoted the book's sales at 7 million - it was a "New York Times" bestseller in its official U.S. edition, but thousands of copies were sold through bootleg printings of the book by no-name publishing houses, marketed as straight porn...
Representatives from the Office of the General Counsel also held a session on intellectual property and copyright issues relating to Internet...