Supreme Court to Hear Online Reprint Case

Markar writes "The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case involving on-line copyright issues. Freelance authors have sued for having their stories/articles stored in online databases and CD ROMs without their permission. The freelancers assert that separate permission is required to do so. Complete story is on Salon." This is a big issue for a lot of media outlets which have huge databases of old articles compiled by freelancers.