No Payments Yet In Tasini Settlement
A court has rejected a settlement between freelancers and publishers that had been sparked by a suit led by Jonathan Tasini.
No, this has nothing to do with the Huffington Post.
Tasini v. New York Times, which reached the Supreme Court in 2001, concerned whether publishers should be able to use freelance works in online databases like LexisNexis. Tasini won his case, PaidContent reports, but a separate class-action lawsuit was needed to get payment from the many other freelancers who felt ripped off.
A settlement was finally negotiated between 21 individual writers, National Writers Union, The Authors Guild, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors on one side, and electronic database companies on the other.
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