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News about 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.
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'And your firstborn, if any' Swift, Yahoo and copyright
Unexpected support for copyright WIPO report part 2
World Intellectual Property Day International Federation of Journalists statement, 26/04/25
The wheels of copyright diplomacy grind slow WIPO report
Can you beat £3700 from collecting society ALCS? Let us know in confidence
Copyright wins a wave of support and a random weirdness update
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence notes for a response to a consultation
'AI' opens up an old philosophical wound by retailing rubbish
Reform needed at the Guardian and the debut of a robo-scab
UK government wants to give in to Google on copyright - now it's official
New Zealand joins the Google threat club over plan to pay papers
Copyright conflicts coalesce over 'AI' and in academia
Using 'AI' is never safe research shows - and legality update
Google awaits more court verdicts on monopoly practices
'They're playing our song' and faking endorsements
A call to action on ‘artificial intelligence’ from the IFJ
Artificial silliness abounds Microsoft maybe confesses
A copy is a copy and a copyright breach, even if it's done in oils
Union colleagues fight to defend rights from AI meeting report
Le Monde journalists get their fair share including AI deal
Is Google paying your newspaper to use 'AI'? and more artificial silliness
How 'original' does your work have to be to be protected by copyright law?
The Gray Lady takes on the artificial hack NYT sues OpenAI
Public Lending Right gone wrong the British Library hacked
Tinseltown deals with AI Writers' Guild negotiates
If governments can't handle it, let's deal with AI ourselves panel discussion
Getty gets 'AI' fever launches robo-photo service, but not using news
Two important surveys please contribute - one with a prize
Copyright cases carry on photographers' rights upheld, internet giants resist paying
How is 'artificial intelligence' going for you? and auto-libel update
Who owns what robots eat and what they excrete? we summarise copyright and 'AI'
Google 'fessed up to mass copyright breach then apparently unconfesses
Google wages war on law can pay, won't pay for news
Squid Game creator lost the contest signed his rights away
A crunch point for journalism, culture and democracy with so-called 'AI'
LETTER: Photographers must have the right to stop AI... and clarification
Micropayment rears its confused head again the machine stutters
Copyrights and wrongs when fake claims suppress the news - and a victory for books
They got £7700 from ALCS! How you can get some...
Google repeats 'cut off your country' lobbying move in Canada, now
Repair robot rights! UK government pauses free mining for robots - and more US lawsuits
So what is it about Google? pros and cons of the internet giant
The march of the robo-photo is stock photography dying?
What Google wants - UK copyright skirmish looms and more in the USA
US Small Claims process opens its doors on 16/06/22
Empire State freelances gain new protection contracts and collection
European Union acts to rein in internet giants Britain lags, weirdly
Journalists must be paid for tech giants' use of their work World Copyright Day statement
Pay the Creator and challenge benefit rules - meeting report
Pay the creator Creators' Rights campaign launch
Credit is essential was Twitter right to ban a purported news source?
Books are safe from 'exhaustion' for now
Public Lending and the plague where did the money go?
What time is shove? notorious artists object to re-use
Guardian signs House Agreement small rate rise for writers
Little Mermaid in copyright row sculptor's heirs claim copying
Saving our books international copyright after Brexit
Writers' collecting society seeks board members distributes more cash
Brexit update old passports; Family Permits; border checks; copyright
Save our books! from a gnarly Brexit side-effect
International networked copyright WIPO discussions online
Homage or heist? When can artists use photos?
'The Man' blinks, sometimes so try to negotiate on rights
Sign up to ALCS member got £5000 free money, except they earned it!
More for book authors from some second-hand sales
A turning point with the internet giants World IP Day statement
Facebook fights furiously to fend off fees bans itself in Australia in the process
US Senate passes Small Claims process registration required
Europe takes on the internet giants Digital Services Act announced
Another internet giant half-bows to the inevitable paying for news
When copyright theft is criminal fraud, too
Integrity is important Polish photographer's win
International remote copyright WIPO discussions online
Google ups the ante keep pouring that cash...
Copyright gets entangled more EU action
Google comes clean on photos internet giants fight payment
Devil's Sidewalk leads to court Neil Young sues Trump
How to make money from newsletters meeting report
Two classic pieces updated to go with the revised Freelance Fees Guide advice section:
Copyright glossary terms that should alert freelances to problems with a contract
Show me the money Copyright is a food-on-table thing
Is Google going to pay up? copyright update, now with South African shenanigans
Fees and rights in non-fiction publishing what to do?
New record ALCS payout sign up too!
If you don't ask, you don't get payment for Twitter pic
Instagram crosses over renounces photo embedding
US publishers sue Internet Archive & music industry wins $1 billion
No, Meghan Markle hasn't lost copyright back in focus
Don't abandon your photos online US copyright caution
World Intellectual Property Day 2020 26/04/26 Celebrating the EU copyright reform for a fairer digital world
Vigorously denounce covid opportunism! copyright update
Writer earns £4k of 'free money' you can sign up too!
Two right royal rows over copyright shorter update
What picture editors want FT photo editor Helen Healy (short meeting report)
Put freelance fees up by 50 per cent orders Amsterdam judge
US small claims procedure edges closer amid shady lobbying
Copyright law gets exciting perhaps too much so
Photographers warned: don't sign unfair contracts for Ariana Grande gigs
Support the writers! All-Party Writers' Group inquiry into authors' earnings
Photographers! Help! send your rates
£6k payout for stolen work with the NUJ's help
Work for local papers 'as important as the nationals' Dutch court to be told
Back in Geneva stately proceedings of international ©
New NUJ 'What does the NUJ do for freelances?' recruitment video feat. journalist paid £6500 for unauthorised used of their video
Copyright: a tragedy in three acts why creators need paid
How are copyright changes going? - government consults
New copyright directive is a step in the right direction but could still be improved Update: EU Commission echo of Freelance analysis gets taken down
Freelances - and their copyright - remembered in House Agreement at Trinity Mirror Merseyside
Witch Walks writer wins £19k from flagrant council website
Internet not broken copyright on the mend
No guineas the mystery of an anti-copyright corporation
Witch Walks writer wins £19k from flagrant council website
A copyright crunch point - the Directive passes the Parliament
A copyright crunch point gear up to campaign
Weird Wings over Scotland row a win for Google
Moral rights and fake news we object to lies
Freelance Fees Guide update new suggestions for print rates
Crunch vote for copyright in Europe can you write to your Members of the European Parliament?
Cairncross Review into the sustainability of high-quality journalism in the UK - call for evidence - deadline 07/09/18
Potter's unicorn jinxes magnate copyright storm on a coffee mug
Enforce moral rights to fight misinformation World Copyright Day statement
PRESIDENT'S PLATFORM Charging boosts photographers - the NUJ says amateurs should demand payment
Windfall payments add up we need contract review
#paynautiluswriters open letter from freelances at Nautilus magazine
Prints not dead a renaissance of indy women's magazines
Be more careful with Tweets now copyright & terms triggered - in brief
Public Lending Right changes new sign-up for book cash
Be more careful with Tweets now copyright & terms triggered - full story
Rock and roll era royalties Jill Furmanovsky - meeting report
The future of copyright in Europe a left-field threat to Public Lending Right
A Serf on Google's farm playing with monopoly
Google used monopoly power to hide news of its monopoly
What you should know about copyright revised guide
What you should know about 'quoting' revised guide
Time to re-think the re-write Mail on-line rip-off
PRESIDENT'S PLATFORM Taylor tells TUC good work is the hallmark of a fair society
A campaign for fair contracts sign up now
Strategic patience in Geneva support for authors at last
Protect sources, fight secrecy meeting report
Strategic patience at WIPO international authors' rights again
None huger than Perugia journalism festival report
Authors' rights in the US yes please
Record copying payout £4k for one freelance
Licensing and remuneration of journalists EFJ responds to EU copyright directive
Google should not be an image publisher Germans complain
Another survey of freelances good plan to do it
Transparence: a lovely word copyright update
Why you should hang on to your rights syn-di-cate!
Drone dosh! £750 for flyaway photo
Eyewitnesses earn meeting report
Earn from eyewitness visual journalism meeting report
Back from the dead, and broke perils of anti-copyright
Back in, back in Geneva international © again
PRESIDENT'S PLATFORM Exposed photogs resist gloom
PRESIDENT'S PLATFORM Local news photography matters
Brussels sprouted leaks copyright plans published - updated
Watch out, photographers more cash grabs
PRESIDENT'S PLATFORM Freelances are an evil cartel, no?
Freelance fightback for our rights
PRESIDENT'S PLATFORM Licensing danger - free is expensive
The Horrid case of Henry authors need new rights law
Brussels sprouts many leaks copyright plans out now
Giveaway photog sues Getty for $1 B now Zuma wants more
Collecting what, for whom? The PICSEL saga
Unfair contracts: new laws proposed in France & Germany
PHOTOGRAPHERS write to Alamy keep copying money
REVIEW Privacy, data, rights and a shootout
All Vice no virtue Murdoch mag grabs rights, dumps risk
Recipe for BBC confusion policy small print not so cheery
'You absolutely need journalism' Google News Lab report
Tie the Culture Secretary down, please multi-letter appeal
Google gains, authors lose books appeal turned down
You could get £000s from copiers book now!
A pay in the Sun rates reports please!
Public Lending Wrong payment error fixed
Steve Bell's podium shaggers meeting report
'You absolutely need journalism' Google News Lab report
Boosting freelances meeting report
From zero to hero negotiating wins
Stirrings on Authors' Rights roundup
Public Lending Right statements up money on its way
Photographers' Payback 'fraud' sign nothing
Very long headline that will shock you... blatant lifting
Stirrings in Geneva WIPO notes
NUJ to photographers: watch out! check before signing owt
Trans-Pacific bellwether leaked IP treaty
For fair contracts meeting report
Authors' rights worldwide WIPO notes
Omitting compensation for rightsholders illegal law anulled
A Swift update new contracts for Taylor's photographers
Crowdfund news! Peter Jukes meeting report
How to do crowdfunding meeting report
Making contracts fair the crux of copyright
A modest proposal to Taylor Swift what about those restrictive contracts?
Counting the cost of copyright action for Daniel Morel
Contracts campaign gathers pace keep sending evidence
Vigilance on authors' rights tell us about abuse
Garbage told: 'that's rubbish' no free pix
Stay vigilant on due diligence copyright news (UK and EU)
Negotiating 'bolt-ons' tales of getting non-monetary uplifts
Extended collective licensing ALCS members do respond!
Current contents all this year's Freelance articles
Attention! - NUJ members call before working for these
Trireme Awards - for legendary stinginess
The Gong - wake-up calls for late payers
Freelance Fees Guide suggested rates
Interest & compensation calculator for late payers
Link up with the NUJ - register for client-specific alerts
Creators' Rights for all campaign documents
Right to report handy list of articles