London Freelance: All reports on copyright & authors' rights

The following are selected articles covering significant events in freelances' struggle over their rights. Unless otherwise noted, they are from the Freelance. If you find a broken link, tell us and try the link to the [source site] homepage.

March 2010 - online only

[] Google on hold settlement delayed

[] Small progress on copyright, not many killed

[] Four reasons to resist Bauer's grab

[] Why 'moral rights' are important part xiv

[] In Germany, it's good to talk

[] From the Finland station rights retained

[] US freelances get to try again 15 years on

February 2010 - online only

[] Google Books checklist what's 'opt-out?' deadline 28/01/10

[] New ways to make journalism pay conference report

[] Google in the goo

[Reuters] US Justice Dept says Google books deal troubled oops

[] All go on the copyright front

[] If you don't ask, you don't get (part 97)

[] AOL launches user-generated sites and pays

[] Claim for Irish books now

January 2010

[] Working for your rights NUJ © campaign

[] Musicians sue for up to $6 billion in Canada

[] UN body debates copyright

[] Have you ever belonged to the FT? get in touch

[] New Google Books dates

[] Photographer wins on rights

[] Breaking the back of the book?

[] Goodbye territorial rights?

[] People Management: get in touch

[] © change coming first take on the Bill

[] NUJ lobbies for your rights what digital economy?

[BBC] Johnston Press starts charging for online local news

[Independent] Murdoch turns to Gates for website help

[BBC] Google to limit free news access

November 2009 - in the post

[] New ways to make journalism pay conference 16/01/10

[] ©hange is in the air copyright update

[] Sign up for authors' rights in Europe Swiss petition

[] Report on photography in Europe published

October 2009 - online only

[] Guardian ‘day of rest’ for photographers press releases

[] Guardian ‘day of rest’ for photographers watch for date

[] A crowded orphanage copyright update

[] Swiss photographers' petition demands payment

[] Google books update court hearings delayed

September 2009

[] Monetizing the interwebs google in doo-do

[] Do BBC websites pay for photos or not?

[] You don't ask, you don't get so ask about rights

[] Claim cash for photos DACS distribution

[] 'Let me steal or I sue' depths of © ignorance

August 2009 - online only

[Guardian] US investigates Google book deal formal antitrust case

[] Photographers challenge Guardian rights grab demo 01/09/09

[] AD Creators' Rights Alliance: administrator needed 04/09/09

July 2009

[] Google: goodwill or grasp?

[] Orphans return haunting US Congress

June 2009 - online only

[] The library of Google ghast?

[] Calling Guardian freelances chapel meeting 25/06/09

[BBC] Net access is a human right, says French court

[] Finnish freelances fight unfair contract

[Guardian blog] Google faces monopoly investigation over books deal opt-out deadline now in September

May 2009

[] Could 'public licences' work? consultation on library use

[] Diversify and survive and syndicate

[] Facebook thought we were stupid

April 2009 - online only

[] Photographer forced to un-publish pictures of plane in river

[] US Supreme court to hear copyright case

March 2009

[] Book authors can collect from Google

[] J K Rowling clarifies fair use

[] Winds of change forecast for copyright law

[] Online photo rates, please

January 2009

[] Little Orphan Anomie legislation looms

[] Amateur stills fill Bild to gills

[] Collecting UNpaid dues

[] Guardian imagery licence yes, it's voluntary

[] Bailiffs ahoy! agencies collect for abuse

[] Unsettling unnews online abuse in limbo

[] Not backing Bauer whatever they claim

[] Online photo rates, please

[] Writers claim now! deadline 31/12/08

December 2008

[] Hark, the Herald photographers organise

[] Google to pay US authors

[] Online photo rates, please

[] Muso machinations

[] Why keep your rights?

October 2008 - online only

[] Orphaned works wait

[] Herald of resistance

[] Merlin - one to watch? music independents' forum

[EPUK] Herald-Times face industrial action over photographers' contracts

September 2008

[] Associated Newspapers contracts, please

[] Twelve million dollars! Photographer's win

[] Teaching to copyright test resale reaction

[] Alamy alarm

[] Intriguing Payment Calumny IPC terms?

[] A ShadyBauer for you network now

[] Times Supplements photographers get in touch!

August 2008

[] Baleful Bauer get in touch over contracts

July 2008

[] Pay orphans' parents!

[] Copyright matters Commons meeting report

[] iPod levy big in Japan

May 2008

[] Dear editor... campaign on commissioning

[] Copyright at stake

[] 'Crucial that photographers stick together' David Redfern

April 2008

[] Proposed changes to copyright law Rights to bang?

[] It's a win-win competition, now NUJ sorts rules

[] Money for free! so how they get that, then?

[] Signal failure broadcasters seek rights, again

[] Online rights win

[] Sign up and save an author...

[BBC] US writers vote for deal

March 2008

[] Copyright cases covered legal service

[] Billions due to writers?

February 2008

[EPUK] Photographers say Guardian is misleading on deal

[] Archive I've not been paid for forgetful Guardian

[] Orphan asked questions

[] All you gotta do is pay me! Writer's rant

[] Copyright stripped away? keeping identifiers

[] Lapdancer protects morals right to right credit, that is

January 2008

[] US copyright abuse - back to the drawing-board?

[] Guardian warning archive demand

December 2007

[] Form-filling for fun and profit how ALCS pays off

[] Danish journalists keep their rights

[] German unions fight off rights-grab

[] US writers strike solidarity!

November 2007

[] Great expectations of orphans what will become of authorless works?

[] No to Getty giveaway photographers resist

September / October 2007

[] NI demands free re-use of images

[] Musos' managers' mania muted gig contracts update

[] Who can you photograph? children? model releases?

[] Stem stealth syndication

[] British Library to pay up eventually

[] Claiming debts in Europe will get easier

[] Swedish journalists act for authors' rights

[] Freelance 'strike' legal in Denmark

August 2007

[] Copyright can make you money cheap course for members

[] Payback 2007 is here for photographers and illustrators...

[] Guardian demons

July 2007

[] We need to talk about money raising your rates

[] £27k from © chasing

[] Photographers and writers make more money

[] DACS Payback 2007 and opting your photos out

June 2007

[] Small Claim gets bigger

[] Girl left alone photographers boycott Dolly Parton's gigs

[] Big it up for copyright! conference report

[] Know your copyrights briefings on copyright now available

April 2007

[] Photographers confer on copyright and more

[] The Gong Entertainment Weekly

[] Copyright review: what needs to be done?

[Guardian] Google loses to Belgian publishers again fine cut

February 2007

[] Q/Mojo digital deal done

[] Make money from corporate PR reprints?

[] Evening Standard rights grab members get in touch

[] Get in touch if you do work for the Independent or Channel 4

[] Reed Business Intimidation

January 2007 - double issue with Dec 2006

[] Rough Guides seeks talks

December 2006 - printed with January 2007

[] Money from stock photos prepare for constant change

[] Rock writers get online remuneration

[] Copyright grab alert Johnston Press

November 2006

[] New deals at the Guardian

[] Robster pics a fight

[] Library of bauble? British Library mystery

[Guardian] news.google.be illegal - Belgian court (registration required)

[Mirror] Daily Mirror snapper boycotts Robbie Williams

[] Used books springing up from nowhere

[] Google not wrong -this time

October 2006

[] New musical excess don't sign that contract!

[] Free paper, not free work! thelondonpaper

[] Stop the War nicks a pic then gets silly

[] Screw your courage to whatever and their contract...

[] LETTER No college confusion there

September 2006

[] College confusion over copyright

[] Life not thru a Lens snappers, paper boycott Robbie Williams

[] Copyright sexy after all

[] ADVERT DACS Payback 2006

August 2006

[] Photographers: don't back down meeting report

[] TheirSpace not YourSpace

[] Opting your photos out DACS deal detail

[] ADVERT DACS Payback 2006

[BBC] Le Seuil sues Google publisher objects to scanning

[Independent] An attack on the lives of artists and writers (£1 to read)

July 2006 (or June/July)

[] Creating rights... Copyright matters

[] Unsettling news US copyright action

[] Rockers want their roll

June 2006 - online only

[NUJ] NUJ responds to government "IP" review

[Times] The pitiful slaves of showbiz Libby Purves comment

[] New news network now QualityStreet to share

May 2006 (or May/June)

[] Rates on the move Fees Guide launched

[] Are we a 'business cartel'? threats to organising

April 2006

[] What do we want? Where can we find it? much info

[] Copyright grabbed and returned again

[] New Fees Guide launches 23 March

[] Forms for fun and profit ALCS registration kit

March 2006

[] Some things you should know about quoting

[] Some things you should know about copyright

February 2006

[] A Guardian non-exclusive! snappers' licence

January 2006

[] Seasonal survival tips for a trying time

[] Show me the money the rewards of copyright

[] Spiny problem for book hacks

December 2005

[] Ask Kate! © advice sessions

[] LETTER Bye-bye dodgy cheques!

November 2005 - online only

[] Citizen can notes for a debate 14/11/05

October 2005

[] Brought to book US authors sue Google

[Guardian] Writers sue Google Print over copyright

[] Getting our souls back no to 'no compete' contracts

[] A guide to charging for digital imaging

[] Register now and get more for your articles

September 2005

[] Slam-dunk for snapper settles for £45,000

[] Citizen hack? diversity and dangers

[] ©laim & ©ounter ©laim 30/09/05 US deadline

[] What does it take? debate at the Commons

[] Opting your photos out DACS deal detail

[] Video nicey © show for your branch

August 2005 - virtual Freelance

[] What does it take? our debate at the Commons - in full

July 2005

[] Journalists are all overpaid, right? discuss - at the Commons

[] $18M for freelances? Not enough, say some

[] Fresh Fees Guide discussion fora launched

[] Copyright for Journalists... and more Courses & training

[] Good news! C4 doesn't want universal rights...

[] Register for royalties now!

June 2005

[] It's our day of action Tuesday 7 June

[] Victory in Scotland snappers win £20k

[] Sell it again, Sam syndication sagas

[] How to sell yourself online

May 2005 - online only

[] Fight photo free-for-all! can TV use pix for "review"?

April 2005

[] Brought to book nonfiction authors' bind

[] Time for a treasure hunt Guardian looses grip

[] Print-on-demand guidance to authors

[] Court at last for Scottish snappers

February 2005

[] Please release me... beware small print

[] More cash for copies

[] Payback pays out £2.25M for images

[] Haymarket cheque check

[] What it's worth snap unhappy

[] Perfect Pitch course on making deals

January 2005

[] Freelances activated conference excitement

November 2004

[] Photographers' contract is a work of art

[] Guardian deal

October 2004

[] Guardian deal

September 2004

[] The joy of the deal to wellness via the kasbah

[] Instant copyright deal redeems Arts Council

August 2004

[] All together now... organising contradictions

[] Defending photography itself

[] Defend the BBC! Send your Charter Review responses

[NUJ] OFCOM Public Service Broadcasting review NUJ submission

April 2004

[] Fonda fake furore

[] Performance performs agreement struck

[] Fiction's flexible friends How the other half live

[] Liable to cause problems

[] Photocopied money for you just sign up

[NWU] Pay as you go - only if creators get a share

[] 'The most outrageously unfair contract' Letter to NY Times

[] Stand up, stand up for your rights

Mar 2004

[Guardian] Photo of Kerry with Fonda was manipulated Corbis to sue?

[] We're winning on rights not quite there, but advancing

[] Opting your photos out of the DACS money collection

[] The Gong Los Angeles Times: £500 owed for over a year

January 2004

[] Worldwide worry waiting for Walden

[] Fair use? photographers let us know

[] The Gong The Business

[] Indy races on

[] Future backs down

[] London calling do the BBC survey

December 2003

[] BBC and Creators - What Future? seminar report

[] The Gong Sweet & Maxwell and Lexis-Nexis

[] Recycling win for ex-Melody Makers

[] The Rate for the Snap

[] Digital deal at the Guardian

[] The Beeb front do that survey please!

[] Fees Guide guidance please

[] Amazon bared all

November 2003 (online only)

[] Guardian willing to talk on online edition

[NWU] Real change needed at TimeWarner

[Observer] BBC caught in its Worldwide web CRA conference

October 2003

[] Millions await your message claim now

[] Emap's tiny terror and an answer

[] The BBC respects rights The BBC has always respected rights...

[] Dear Independent nice campaigning, but this injustice at home...?

[] Non-negotiations with Time Out mean non-grab

[] Dear Independent... nice paper, shame about the terms

[] Record rate? £29,000 for one character...

[] BBC and Creators - What Future? seminar 21/10/03

September 2003

[] Online bankable

[] Paragon of virtually nothing

[] Better deals can be yours free course 15/10/2003

[] Copy jam cleared

[] OU goes by the book

[] BBC freelances, tell us... do this survey now, please

[] Moving on copyright consultant ceases

August 2003

[] NME Unoriginals NME & Melody Maker contributors' alert

[] Watch out for EMAP plans

[] Highbury low

[] Battle of the Titans Corbis v Amazon

[] LETTER State of © Play

[] AD Creators' Rights Alliance: administrator

July 2003

[] Independent variable giveth with one hand...

[The Register] RIAA's Rosen 'writing Iraq copyright laws'

[] Snap to it! photographers' meeting

[BBC] Puretunes promises to pay creators for dowloads industry to sue, though

[] Copy right cash coming but beware the catch!

[The Register] EMI poised to sue Bertelsmann over Napster

[] The darling briefs of May

[] Tell MPs about freelancing consultation until 09/06/03

[BBC] Michael Jackson sues Motown as if he hasn't prostituted Imagine etc enough...

[] Meetings mean money the importance of being networked

[Newsfox] Universal sues Bertelsmann © violation through support of Napster

[] Guardian and Independent networks meet

[] Gabriel not devil?

[BBC] Copyright hits bottom Kylie art in lawyer bummer

June 2003

[] Stop Digging in the dirt boycott Gabriel!

[] Special photographers' meeting tell the GS what you need

[] Mojo keeps working agreement at EMAP

[] AirNet stops that flyaway feeling broadcasters network now

[] The Gong Rolling Stone: nine months to deliver a kill fee

[] Travel writing its part in saving the world

[] NWU launches US "Rights for Creators" website

[] Picture this £000s for you?

[] Scotsman opens wallet

[Guardian] Hey, that's my idea "format rights" in the Guardian

[] LETTER How the giants really work

April/May 2003

[] A world to win photographers need global reach

[] Euromoney? get in touch

[] Why is this Planet Lonely?

[] Trireme Award Cat News races to the bottom

March 2003

[] Underdogs bite back IndyNet launched

[BBC] Music stars urged to claim royalties

[] Rough at the top Guides chapel forms

[] Gridlock unglued

[] Getting Started as a Freelance book course now

February 2003

[] Who owns that? database launched

[] French photographers sue AFP

[The Register] Supremes back Disney etc

[The Register] Some truth about copyright geeks for ©

January 2003

[] Indyscribably awful terms network forming

[] Stash that script prove it's your idea

[InfoWorld] Sneakwrap abounds Lawyers try to limit use of books

[] Good and odd news on the rights front

[] Ungrab rights!

[] Hogwash harried NWU vs AOL

[] Beware the Witch of Work-for-Hire! NWU announcement

[The Register] Patent Office swamped by EU Copyright Directive response

December 2002

[] Photographer wins £5k+ in earth-shaking case

[] Auntie's agony over? BBC agreement near

[] Dazed + defused

[] Children's nonfiction rights & wrongs feedback please

[] Big Brother burglary barney C4 © row

[The Register] MySQL case settled no day in court for Open Source

November 2002

[] Judge Droll does justice

[] Victories in Copenhagen union must negotiate authors' rights

[] Rovers v rights copyright talks

[] Liliputian Yahoo!

October 2002

[] To corporate bullies An open letter from Steve Platt

[] Sports Council 0, archive 0 photographers claim for lost pix

[The Register] Media giants demand ISPs block Web sites

[] We are all online hacks now

[] TV tomes www.tvfreelancers.org.uk

[] Surrealist lawyers in virtual space

[The Register] German publisher sues over web-linking

[] Picture post register now for £€$$

[] Editor crediter nominate your favourites

[] AOL Time Warner "The Copyright Snatchers"

September 2002

[] IPC: Insist on Photo Copyright

[] Press fights rights grab and wins!

[DACS] Payback 2002 snappers & illustrators claim by 30 Sept

[] Flim-flam Four guess what?

[] Contrôl ffruciau Labour in Wales grabs ©

[] Meeting in Hebden Bridge 07/10/2002

[] Credit where due honour fair editors

Summer 2002 - online only

[The Register] Copyright enforcer Ranger Online caught stealing content

[EPUK] New IPC rights-grab outline response from EPUK

July 2002

[] Radio gaga Radio journalists, it's time to get together and talk

[NWU] US freelances seek bargaining rights

[] Terms tested members keep their work

[] More pounds per picture register now!

[] Exhibit! enter your images

[] Independent evidence please

June 2002

[] Money for old rope? register with ALCS / DACS

[] Nominate your favourite editor let us praise...

[] They're at it again twisted rights-grabs

May 2002

[] Grab your rights, before someone else does CRA conference

[] President puts his finger on digital issues

[] Powder steals a march

April 2002

[] Sygma snappers' strike shows style

[] Unlikely bedfellows in the authors' rights arena

[] Public goods, personal rights Commons debate

March 2002

[] Act against author abuse German publishers get nasty

[] Quoting when is it OK?

[] SNAPpers press on

[] Financial Terms? FT hacks get in touch now

[] They want your copy, not your copyright...

[] More money for doing nothing if your book's in the library

February 2002

[] Are authors' rights a scam? invitation to a debate

[] Register now to get your share of £1·3M

[EPUK] Corbis To Dismember French Connection

[] Brum Post & Mail freelances get in touch!

[IFJ] "Dirty campaign" against creators over German © law

[] AD Creators' Rights Alliance conference

January 2002

[] Footballers settle while the Freelance is in the post...

[] Beeb stick with snatch of the day

[] Economist Intelligence, please get in touch if you work for EIU

[] AD Creators Have Rights video

December 2001

[] Sporting shares support soccer stars' struggle!

[] Freelancim ohne frontières

[] Have you written about copyright?

[] Copyright can be sexy

[] LETTER Don't get caught in that 'net'

November 2001

[] Create copyright concern launch of a campaign

[] Creators' Rights for all a manifesto

[] A few things you should know about copyright in 500 words

[] Dear M.P... a draft letter

[] Times gets with it a bit

[] Index Visual Creators!

[] Court and spark copyright victories and backbiting

October 2001

[] Photographers win in record time

[] Guardian contract `optional' says Managing Editor

[] Face the music troubled IPC media, sense@New Music Monthly

September 2001

[] Yes, you have rights Supreme Court rules for NY Times freelances

[] Guardian rates rise

[] Getty knows the Web's worth

[NUJ HQ] Freelance briefing paper response to Telegraph & other rights-grabs

[] Talks open over BBC Worldwide photo terms

[] Beck called - snappers don't

[NWU] The New York Times Blacklist press release

August 2001 - advance stories for Sept

[] Scottish snappers strike deal - with Business a.m.

[] Victory for US journalists Supreme Court upholds copyright

Jun/Jul 2001

[] Independent inspiration

[] Bookseller signs a deal

[] Tell us about your best deals

[] Auntie coughs up at the World Service

May 2001

[] SNAP to the Sheriff NUJ defends Scottish snappers' archives

[] We can work it out talks with the Guardian make progress

[] Ignite! smouldering nicely IPC consults

[] Independent advice reply to grab

[] NUJ calls for rights breakthrough in Northern Ireland

April 2001

[] Edinburgh freelance lockout Scotsman snappers call for boycott, paper goes fundamentalist

[] Creators' organisations unite now more hard work

[] Muzik pickz your pocketz another IPC alert

[NUJ HQ] Submission to NI Human Rights Commission - section on culture, identiry & authors

March 2001

[] Photographers' Getty grip

[] Instant lobby EuroParliament listens, it seems

[] Marx 1, Globe 0 US freelances win, replay soon

[] YARG at IPC! Link up now! Yet Another Rights Grab

[] Lifting rights and uplifting rights progress at the Guardian

[] US freelances' day in court Supreme Court date set for 28 March

[] Battling for Creative Rights conference 14 March

[] Confirm and deny commissions clear

January 2001

[] Rights-grab resistance roundup and contacts

December 2000

[] Now, e-dinburgh Scottish snappers unite online for decent working conditions

[] Fog on the Mersey grabbers at work

[] VNU alert! they're at it again

[] Supreme challenge NWU goes to top court

[] Getting paid on the Web NWU strikes deal with site

[] Rights roundup time who owns what where?

[] Online syndication ByLine - a new source of revenue for freelance journalists?

[] Murdoch runs a gauntlet of hate opposes performers' rights

November 2000

[] EMAP pays up, oddly and raises ethical questions

[] Fill in forms for fun and profit! keep in touch and get paid

[] Corbis more suits leave

[] Dorling Kindersley photographers please get in touch

October 2000

[] Bill's basket case Corbis in trouble with photographers

[] Free-lens manifesto French photographers rally

Aug/Sept 2000

[] Authors' Rights for all rights-grabs & the Summit

[] Freelances strike, and win in Finland

[] Write to your MPs now tell about rights-grabs

[] Irish Times deal recognises staff rights family-friendly, too

[] Photos talk Corbis rethinks its contracts

[] Winning with web work negotiating online rights

July 2000 - special briefing on rights grabs

[] Briefing on new copyright grabs Mail, Standard, FT and Economist

[] Sample response to copyright grabs just say "no"

June 2000

[] A global campaign on Authors' Rights

[] Authors' Rights for all the issues

[] Reasons to be radical introduction to a campaign

[] Ceci n'est pas un dictionnaire - ni Figaro

[] Lens wars at NatGeo, Corbis, & the Boston Globe

[] Geeks get a grip nix CIX T&Cs

[] A few things you should know about copyright UK law in 500 words

[] VNU sees sense - in France

[] Snappers' dosh £160k from DACS

May 2000

[] Online organising gets results - Business Week strikes deal

[] Now, northern network Broadcasters launch online Northern Freelance network

[] The wise & foolish... Virgin gives in!

Mar/Apr 2000

[] Tony Stone, phone home what photo contract do you work under?

[] German photojournalists win in court

[] If you don't ask you don't get EMAP Healthcare freelances do and do

[] Northern freelances get results Abramsky backtracks on metropolitanisation

[] Déja vu again idea-ripoff reports needed

Jan/Feb 2000

[] Photographers snap to www.epuk.org

[] Northward Ho! Broadcast freelances organise in the North of England

[] All together to tame the Beeb NUJ has teamed up with other unions to challenge the BBC over its attitude to copyright.

[] NUJ to host authors' rights summit

Nov/Dec 1999

[] EMAP wealthcare

[] Copyright: The big picture WTO, GATS, WIPO explained

October 1999 special

[] US freelances win their work back - victory in Tasini -vs- Times

September 1999

[] French journos win on rights

[] Ireland faces up to copyright battle new Bill

[] Guardian: it's down to muck and brass

[] Quebec freelances launch £12·5M copyright case

Jul/Aug 1999

[] Landmark email campaign victory at Business Week

[] Lilliputians beat Yahoo!

[] VNU breaks wind - asks what freelances think

[] Webbed tales online rights grabs

[] Talk about talk real life negotiations

[] Amway, East West and everywhere... more rights grabs

[] Half man, half hoarse Centaur Communications rights grab

May/Jun 1999

[] Come in nº 6! - Visual Creators' Index launch

[] Guardian talks get under way

Mar/Apr 1999

[] Guardian: we keep copyright

[] What will the Guardian deal mean?

[] Emap Metro - the real deal non-talks produce a real-result

[] This land is ours... not trademarked

[] Watch out Time Out!

[] Put it in writing new commission forms

[] Deadline DACS

Jan/Feb 1999

[] E-mapping a way forward... We have an agreement at Emap Healthcare

[] Nicked if you do, nicked if you don't...

[] Academics demand rights

[] A share in £300k could already be yours...

[] Render unto Cæsar... National Trust claims England™

[] Arts for art's sake?

[] BBC Offline Alan Pearce's grievance website

Nov/Dec 1998

[] Don't be duped! lost slides = loot!

[] Unholy Trinity

[] US authors win in court

[] Good things come...

[] ...to those who ask

[] High drama the RSC claims all

Sep/Oct 1998

[] Copyright: why isn't it as good as French and German law?

August 1998

[] Healthcare freelances break new ground freelance group's resistance turns to talks

[] We have Condé Nast's number (it's 350)

July 1998

[] Some forgotten corner of a foreign field? why moral rights could be a matter of life and death

[] Dennis: less menace

June 1998

[] Dim view on Northern Light

[] IPC freelances organise

May 1998

[] Will it sell itself? try with ByLine

[] Farringdon farrago the Guardian still bullying

Mar/Apr 1998

[] Emapping out the path

[] Academic assertions ALCS stands up

[] Between rock and a hard place IPC photograpers resist

[] Squeaky wheel gets the dosh

Jan/Feb 1998

[] Guardian fight moves on

[] Dutch treat! Dutch freelances win on electronic rights

Nov/Dec 1997

[] IPC's at it again on... guess what?

[] A look in the Mirror unions under siege

[] Guardian backs down a bit on copyright

[Mike Holderness] Web weathers legal whimper Shetland News settlement

Sep/Oct 1997

[] It's for you-hoo. . . money waiting with ALCS

[] US freelances suffer technical defeat
Tasini-v-Times, round 1

[] A few things you should know about copyright the guide to the basics

[] Photomanipulation time to show what's real

[] The argument from Design beware rights clause

[] On your Guardian get in touch!

[] Stick it on your Birt at the BBC

[] The Daily Mail new rights-grab

Jul/Aug 1997

[] Getting together to tackle the Guardian

[] What a tangled Web TotalNews settles, Shetland News fights on

[] Dennis un-menaces

[] Auntie gets our story in a twist the BBC backs down, -ish

May/Jun 1997

[] As serious as your life! internet pillage + happy ending

[] Cheques, Cheats, Charters and the BBC Birtists Blagging Copyright

[] How do you think Bill got that rich? Now he's trying to grab copyright. He's never done it before... perish the thought...

[] Future: the latest

[] Do you work for the Guardian? Then come to this meeting

[] Personnel personnel back people

[] Reprint rights reap rewards!

Mar/Apr 1997

[] Spring is sprung, the suits is riz... and nicking rights

[] The Guardian The contributors' meeting

[] The Independent gets even meaner

[] <irony>IPC discovers irony</irony>

Jan/Feb 1997

[] Sign up, sign up for your rights

[] Belgian hacks win on e-rights

[] Error: no data database providers fail to talk

[] Who owns your identity? digital watermarking must be an open standard

[] What do we want? European Federation of Journalists paper on authors' rights

Special (not in paper edition)

[] NUJ supports internet publisher against court threat to Web links

Nov/Dec 1996

[] You have your cake, they eat it (Newer, subtle Times rights grab)

[] O vanitas, O cash in hand! using the Net to detect rights abuse

[] Site rights create work!

[] Paying us pays off shock! (Or so finds Harper's)

[] If you Mac it, mark it! report on photomanipulation policy

[] Economist Intelligence, please

Sep/Oct 1996

[] Interesting news from Belgium

[] You may already have won... don't lose out copyright licensing registration drive

[] Victory to Janes' Fighting Hacks

[] Guardian pulls tight the purse-strings

[] Full Metal Hack(ette)s Just Say No to Men in Suits

[] People aren't so human

Jul/Aug 1996

[] NUJ connects with ALCS for cyber-rights

[] Associated Press-gang AP claims all rights in pix

[] The Norwegians have arrived staff journalists get agreement on electronic rights

[] Paragon's virtues they cough up for rights abuse

May/Jun 1996

[] Freelances back collecting society

[] US freelances collect now

[] EMAP re-draws its plans

[] Future is brighter it negotiates over electronic rights

Mar/Apr 1996

[] Be on your Guardian over rights they're trying to grab them, in case you hadn't guessed

[] Newspaper Publishers' Association launches collection scheme but what do we get?

[] Electronic rights EU hearing on the Green Paper Copyright and related rights in the information society

[] US mags pay up for e-rights

Jan/Feb 1996 (part)

[] VNU pays up!

[NUJ / EFJ] Copyright and Authors' Rights paper for European Federation of Journalists

Nov/Dec 1995 (part)

[] Operation Magazine Index

[] UK Periodical Publishers position

[] Database publisher coughs up

[] Nightmare on 43rd Street New York Times rights grab

[] NUJ joins Authors Registry

July 1995 (part)

[] Copyright Coalition Creates

Apr/May 1995 (part)

[] Electrified Telegraph re-thinks rapidly

[] Creators' Copyright Coalition formed

March 1995

[] Hope across the water NWU lawsuit launched

Jan 1995 - in which we discover authors' rights

[] Fierce contracts come thick and fast the historic headline at the start of the UK copyright battle

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