NYT v. Tasini Claims Settled for $18M
Ending a four-year battle between 10,000 freelance writers and a group of online database companies, the database companies have agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims of copyright infringement.
The settlement, which primarily covers claims from the National Writers Union, the Authors Guild, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, arose out of the 2001 landmark case Tasini et al v. The New York Times. The writers had argued that their work had appeared in online databases like Lexis-Nexis and ProQuest, without them receiving compensation for those electronic rights.
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