[lit-ideas] calling all freelancers
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:43:23 EDT
Hi,
On one of my librarian-types of lists, this showed up and I wondered if any
of those who are into the writing mode were aware of it. Andreas? Eric?
Wishing she had scribbled for pay instead of reading for wonder,
Marlena in Missouri
Class Action settlement for Freelancers
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:54:42 +0000
From Poynter.org
A proposed settlement in a class-action publishing lawsuit could
divvy up as much as $18 million dollars among qualifying freelance
writers.
Anyone who's written a freelance article since 1977 should check out
this site, FreelanceRights.com, (_http://freelancerights.com/_
(http://freelancerights.com/) ) which
has been set up about the settlement.
<_http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=80843_
(http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=80843) >
Under the terms of the settlement, publishers (including The New York
Times, Time Inc., The Wall Street Journal) and database companies
(including Dow Jones Interactive, Knight-Ridder, Lexis-Nexis,
Proquest, and West Group) agreed to pay writers up to $1,500 for
stories in which the writers had registered the copyright in
accordance with timetables established in federal copyright law. And
even writers who failed to register their copyrights will receive up
to $60 per article.
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