[lit-ideas] Re: calling all freelancers
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:39:53 -0700
It's real. The NWU won a lawsuit against the New York Times et al and they've
finally
reached an $18 million settlement.
If you've written anything SINCE 1977 (that's 1977) that could have been
published in any
newspaper, magazine, or book, your content is very likely in the databases of
large
publishers. If so, you may already be a winner.
This applies to freelancers, researchers, staffers, your cat, whomever. If you
wrote
anything that could have appeared in print anywhere, your article could be in
the publisher
databases.
Go to www.freelancerights.com and sign up for the newsletter for further news
on how to file
a claim.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] calling all freelancers
> 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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