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The Freelance archive
The Freelance is the bulletin of London Freelance Branch of the National Union of Journalists. To get actual help with the issues discussed here, we suggest you join the union.
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Ed's free, but watch your back more seizure orders expected
Don't let it bug you... Y2K is (mostly) harmless
Copyright: The big picture WTO, GATS, WIPO explained
Rights for staff © isn't just for freelances
LETTER A disgrace to journalism
US freelances win their work back - victory in Tasini -vs- Times
Ireland faces up to copyright battle new Bill
The Date for the Job - aka The Gong River Publishing Ltd
Network now! we want to hear from you
Notice this! Make sure contracts hold water...
Reclaiming the right to report not getting nicked
Fleeting image make your troublesome pix vanish
Not a rubber stamp court refuses pix
Landmark email campaign victory at Business Week
Accruals made easy positive tax planning
Amway, East West and everywhere... more rights grabs
Webbed tales online rights grabs
Talk about talk real life negotiations
VNU breaks wind - asks what freelances think
Do you work for the BBC (again)?
Stay in touch! Freelance organising news
The Date for the Job new section?
Street-wisdom meeting for photographers
Getting started as a freelance day course
Virtual LFB needs a body part-time post...
Half man, half hoarse Centaur Communications rights grab
Come in nº 6! - Visual Creators' Index launch
Eyebrows bizarrely raised... NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting 1999
Freelances where in the NUJ? NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting 1999
Are you or have you ever been a freelance contributor to the BBC?
Find (nearly) any adult , any time...
Tick like a lawyer Late Payment Act trips in
Taking freelances to the heart of the NUJ conference report
Whores with principles debate ownership of the media
This land is ours... not trademarked
Emap Metro - the real deal non-talks produce a real-result
Put it in writing new commission forms
E-mapping a way forward... We have an agreement at Emap Healthcare
Will Blair take on the media moguls? Not likely! (February meeting at the Commons)
Literate, nous? a tale from the Dark Tower
Render unto Cæsar... National Trust claims England™
Review Look around you...
Let loose the Dons of War - they retrieve
Review Carnage of misjustice
BBC Offline Alan Pearce's grievance website
Taking freelances to the heart of the NUJ a conference for freelance members
Don't be duped! lost slides = loot!
High drama the RSC claims all
Healthcare freelances break new ground freelance group's resistance turns to talks
Keep moving there... tax advice
We have Condé Nast's number (it's 350)
X-ray machines and your film
Some forgotten corner of a foreign field? why moral rights could be a matter of life and death
Fairness for whom? - response to White Paper
Randomly reaching you why the Freelance is late
CinVen or sin bin? IPC is bought out
Farringdon farrago the Guardian still bullying
Will it sell itself? try with ByLine
Trouble at t'mill Morning Star on strike
How do I get wired? a guide to ISPs
The future looks Brighton branch relaunched
Nothing to Fear? Privacy & Press freedom debate at House of Commons
Between rock and a hard place IPC photograpers resist
Academic assertions ALCS stands up
Anne Bolt award prize-giving scheduled
Get started, then write that book LFB training days
It's your Library BL passes
We want our share! freelances kvetch about union funding
EMAP health freelances network takeover galvanises hacks
Dutch treat! Dutch freelances win on electronic rights
"Please, eliminate the poison" Freelances' plea to National Executive
Guardian backs down a bit on copyright
A look in the Mirror unions under siege
IPC's at it again on... guess what?
Getting started as a freelance a LFB course (Or is that 'an LFB...'?)
Revenue redux guidance on tax
Web weathers legal whimper Shetland News settlement
NUJ still supports Shetland News over weblink lawsuit
The argument from Design beware rights clause
Photomanipulation time to show what's real
A few things you should know about copyright the guide to the basics
Anne Bolt memorial award launched for young photographers
We was hard, but we was fair our secret weapon gets results
NUJ still supports Shetland News (Aug 1997)
On your Guardian get in touch!
Stick it on your Birt at the BBC
The Daily Mail new rights-grab
Don't mourn, organise! Freelance trade unionism is a useful contradiction...
The reasons for our success Macmillan journalists organise
What a tangled Web TotalNews settles, Shetland News fights on
Auntie gets our story in a twist the BBC backs down, -ish
Prime time for tolerance IFJ meets on racism and press freedom
Better living through mathematics? Questions about trade union "right to recognition"
Cheques, Cheats, Charters and the BBC Birtists Blagging Copyright
As serious as your life! internet pillage + happy ending
IPC: the chapel lives! (as an underground trade union organisation)
Do you work for the Guardian? Then come to this meeting
How do you think Bill got that rich? Now he's trying to grab copyright. He's never done it before... perish the thought...
Biters bit, bite back Publishers want to hang onto © shock!
Spring is sprung, the suits is riz... and nicking rights
Will the best spin win? LFB @ HoC
Information gap is international a freelance's trouble with government in Denmark, yet
The Independent gets even meaner
The Guardian The contributors' meeting
Another month, another repressive Bill... The UK Police Bill and you
James O'Halloran In Memoriam
Department of No Help (You want to know what the government's doing? Ha!)
Licence to shoot? No government licensing of journalists!
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
©hiseller of the Month more copyright silliness from the Evening Standard
Anne Bolt obituary
NUJ supports internet publisher against court threat to Web links
You have your cake, they eat it (Newer, subtle Times rights grab)
If you Mac it, mark it! report on photomanipulation policy
O vanitas, O cash in hand! using the Net to detect rights abuse
Paying us pays off shock! (Or so finds Harper's)
A helping hand Get started as a Freelance seminar
You may already have won... don't lose out copyright licensing registration drive
Associated Press-gang AP claims all rights in pix
The Norwegians have arrived staff journalists get agreement on electronic rights
The Happy Freelance how to be just that?
Paragon's virtues they cough up for rights abuse
Standard loses bottle manipulates Prescott photo
Playing a win-win game psychological advice on negotiation
Future is brighter it negotiates over electronic rights
Atlantic Monthly throws in the towel and pays for electronic use
Be on your Guardian over rights they're trying to grab them, in case you hadn't guessed
Registering your work your questions answered
Electronic rights EU hearing on the Green Paper Copyright and related rights in the information society
Newspaper Publishers' Association launches collection scheme but what do we get?
Copyright and Authors' Rights paper for European Federation of Journalists
Nightmare on 43rd Street New York Times rights grab
Hope across the water NWU lawsuit launched
Fierce contracts come thick and fast the historic headline at the start of the UK copyright battle
Page 1 (460kb .PNG) - full subs rise to £18 a year
Page 2 (580k) - members must not use fax machines!
Page 3 (630k) - Newspaper Soc agrees 7% rise, NPA 20% on photos
Page 4 (460k) - Time Out features from £15 to £20 per thou
Current contents all this year's 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