opinions on authors' rights raise more questions about online works
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: opinions on authors' rights raise more questions about online works
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:55:39 -0400
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZFEBIKBPC
The Final Word?
Copyright lawyers say a pair of opinions on authors' rights
raise more questions about online works
Brenda Sandburg
The Recorder
July 19, 2001
In recent weeks, federal courts have written
the book on authors' rights to online postings
of their works.
But copyright attorneys say the manuscript
isn't quite complete. A few key questions
remain unanswered. Among them: How much
compensation free-lance writers can claim for
past postings of their works and whether
contracts signed in the pre-Internet era can
ever cover digitized material.
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