Irvin Muchnick, who was assistant director of the National Writers Union from 1994 to 1997 and later a copyright litigation consultant, is lead respondent of the landmark 2010 Supreme Court case
Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick.
Publishers Weekly calls the case
“the central rights dispute of the digital age.” He blogs about writers’ rights issues at
http://freelancerights.blogspot.com.