{"id":680,"date":"2009-05-20T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:48","slug":"archive-111708-cross-posted-from-freelancerights-blogspot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"ARCHIVE 11\/17\/08: Cross-posted from freelancerights.blogspot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<h3><a title=\"Permanent Link to Cross-posted from freelancerights.blogspot.com\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/muchnick.net\/babylon\/2008\/11\/17\/cross-posted-from-freelancerightsblogspotcom\/\">Cross-posted from freelancerights.blogspot.com<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Monday, November 17th, 2008<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div id=\"yiv1647649576\">\n<div id=\"yiv1710892639\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Here&#8217;s another nugget for connoisseurs of under-the-radar news: According to the <span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Supreme Court<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> website, the justices placed on the agenda of their Friday, <span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\">November 14<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, 2008, conference a discussion of whether to grant certiorari in a case now known, mellifluously, as <\/span><em><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:1px dashed #0066cc;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:1px dashed #0066cc;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:1px dashed #0066cc;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:1px dashed #0066cc;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:1px dashed #0066cc;cursor:pointer;\">Reed Elsevier Inc<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>., et al., Petitioners, v. Irvin Muchnick, et al., Respondents.<\/em><br style=\"font-weight:bold;\"> <br style=\"font-weight:bold;\"> <br style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Once upon a time the case was called <\/span><em>In re Freelance Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation<\/em><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">. But that was before a slate of objectors, led by myself, challenged the terms of a <span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">global settlement<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> of publishers&#8217; decades of systematic infringement of the works of freelance writers. The settlement, brokered by three writers&#8217; organizations, was approved in district court in 2005 but thrown out by the <span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Second Circuit Court of Appeals<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> last November.<\/span>CONTINUED in today&#8217;s edition of Beyond Chron, the <span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">San Francisco online newspaper<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondchron.org\/articles\/Supreme_Court_Weighs_Reviving_Freelance_Writers_Settlement_and_Google_Case_Lurks_6300.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">http:\/\/www.beyondchron.org\/articles\/Supreme_Court_Weighs_Reviving_Freelance_Writers_Settlement_and_Google_Case_Lurks_6300.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from freelancerights.blogspot.com Monday, November 17th, 2008 Here&#8217;s another nugget for connoisseurs of under-the-radar news: According to the Supreme Court website, the justices placed on the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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