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News about Authors’ Rights: up to 1999
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.
Copyright: The big picture WTO, GATS, WIPO explained
Rights for staff © isn't just for freelances
US freelances win their work back - victory in Tasini -vs- Times
Ireland faces up to copyright battle new Bill
Landmark email campaign victory at Business Week
Talk about talk real life negotiations
VNU breaks wind - asks what freelances think
Amway, East West and everywhere... more rights grabs
Webbed tales online rights grabs
Half man, half hoarse Centaur Communications rights grab
Come in nº 6! - Visual Creators' Index launch
Emap Metro - the real deal non-talks produce a real-result
This land is ours... not trademarked
Put it in writing new commission forms
E-mapping a way forward... We have an agreement at Emap Healthcare
Render unto Cæsar... National Trust claims England™
BBC Offline Alan Pearce's grievance website
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
We have Condé Nast's number (it's 350)
Some forgotten corner of a foreign field? why moral rights could be a matter of life and death
Will it sell itself? try with ByLine
Farringdon farrago the Guardian still bullying
Between rock and a hard place IPC photograpers resist
Academic assertions ALCS stands up
Dutch treat! Dutch freelances win on electronic rights
IPC's at it again on... guess what?
Guardian backs down a bit on copyright
A look in the Mirror unions under siege
Web weathers legal whimper Shetland News settlement
The argument from Design beware rights clause
A few things you should know about copyright the guide to the basics
Photomanipulation time to show what's real
Stick it on your Birt at the BBC
On your Guardian get in touch!
The Daily Mail new rights-grab
What a tangled Web TotalNews settles, Shetland News fights on
Auntie gets our story in a twist the BBC backs down, -ish
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...
Do you work for the Guardian? Then come to this meeting
Biters bit, bite back Publishers want to hang onto © shock!
Spring is sprung, the suits is riz... and nicking rights
The Guardian The contributors' meeting
The Independent gets even meaner
©hiseller of the Month more copyright silliness from the Evening Standard
What do we want? European Federation of Journalists paper on authors' rights
Who owns your identity? digital watermarking must be an open standard
Error: no data database providers fail to talk
NUJ supports internet publisher against court threat to Web links
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
If you Mac it, mark it! report on photomanipulation policy
Paying us pays off shock! (Or so finds Harper's)
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
Paragon's virtues they cough up for rights abuse
Future is brighter it negotiates over electronic rights
Be on your Guardian over rights they're trying to grab them, in case you hadn't guessed
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
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
Copyright & Authors' Rights links to background papers
Right to report handy list of articles