[lit-ideas] Re: calling all freelancers
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:03:35 -0700
I wondered if any
> of those who are into the writing mode were aware of it.
ck: How do you think I was able to buy that oceanfront condo in Malibu?
Seriously, sort of, from articles I've read, I gather the settlement will
affect contracts (I hope) in the future more than it stands to enrich
freelance writers. OTOH, enriching freelance writers isn't that hard to do.
Sixty bucks will still buy a few mocha lattes at Starbucks, I think.
Carol,
taking the waters
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> Hi,
> On one of my librarian-types of lists, this showed up and 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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