{"id":724,"date":"2009-05-20T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:47","slug":"archive-3609-in-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"ARCHIVE 3\/6\/09: In Other News &#8230;"},"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<h3><a title=\"Permanent Link to In Other News ...\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/muchnick.net\/babylon\/2009\/03\/06\/in-other-news\/\">In Other News &#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Friday, March 6th, 2009<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Readers of this blog probably noticed a lull in content lately. There are two main reasons for this &#8211; the first being that my book <em>CHRIS &amp; NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling&#8217;s Cocktail of Death <\/em>has been delivered to the publisher, ECW Press, and is in production. In the near future, and in advance of <em>CHRIS &amp; NANCY<\/em>&#8216;s publication later in the year, I&#8217;ll be saying a bit more about it here.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason Wrestling Babylon News slowed down involves my other hat, as a writers&#8217; rights activist and lead objector to a global class-action copyright settlement with print and electronic publishers. Both the settlement parties and we objectors have been waiting to find out whether the Supreme Court would grant a petition to hear an appeal in this case.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the justices announced that they have accepted the appeal for hearing during the upcoming fall term. The case is now known as <em>Reed Elsevier, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Irvin Muchnick, et al., Respondents<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For details, see my blog Freelance Rights, <a href=\"http:\/\/freelancerights.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/freelancerights.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Irv Muchnick<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of this blog probably noticed a lull in content lately. There are two main reasons for this \u2014 the first being that my book CHRIS &amp; NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling\u2019s Cocktail of Death has been delivered to the publisher, ECW Press, and is in production&#8230;. 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