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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 1632116" data-attributes="member: 1164">I asked a little bit back about this in the "ATTN Piazo: Dungeon mag and Dragon mag CD-roms & the Tasini v NY Times decision" thread. Some rumors [ enhanced by the veil of an NDA ] point to wotc letting the previous edtions of D&D becoming hush money to Kenzer Ko. in a settlment possibly linked to KoDT reprints.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77120" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77120</a>The Tasini case came up in one of my courses on library work [copyreich subjects]. I got to thinking this could be one of the reasons the archives of the magazine seem to be no-go. Dragon had a fair of in house work, but to my understanding of Dungeon , most adventures were done by “freelancers”.So i got to wondering, did this have bearing on the plans of the CD roms or did the old contracts permit the electronic use of the works in dragon and dungeon?Quote:Originally Posted by <a href="http://www.nwu.org/tvt/tvthome.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nwu.org/tvt/tvthome.htm</a>Introduction to Tasini v NY TimesTasini et al vs The New York Times et al is the landmark lawsuit brought by members of the National Writers Union against The New York Times Company, Newsday Inc., Time Inc., Lexis/Nexis, and University Microfilms Inc., charging copyright violation regarding the electronic reuse of work produced and sold on a freelance basis.For decades, when freelance writers sold stories to American publications it was understood by all concerned that they were selling only First North American Serial rights which allowed the newspaper or magazine to publish the story in print one time. For freelance authors, retention of all other copy rights is crucial to their economic survival because a significant additional source of income comes from their ability to sell secondary rights such as syndication, translations, anthologies, and so forth, to other publications.With the advent of electronic media including databases like Nexis, publishers such as Time/Warner and the Times/Mirror Company, the parent companies of Time and Newsday, have been selling freelance-authored material to electronic databases such as Nexis/Lexis without any additional payment or purchase of electronic rights from the original authors. They claim, without justification, that by purchasing First North American Serial rights they automatically gain electronic re- publication rights. Tasini et al vs The New York Times et al is going to establish that they are violating the copy rights of writers.Copyright © 2000 by National Writers Union.</blockquote>

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