Court Rules Against Photographers in Copyright Suit

An anonymous reader writes "Photo District News Online reports a Federal District Court in NY says that republishing Magazine content on a CD is the same as republishing the magazine itself. Photographers claim they should recieve additional compensation for images published on the CD that were published in the orginal magazine articles. IANAL but there is some additional interesting case history in the article as well."

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Very limited context

[werdna]

This is NOT really a technology case at all, but rather an analysis of whether a publisher's license to initially publish content in a magazine in one format embodies an implied permission to republish the content in a different format without obtaining a new license from the content-maker (LEXIS/NEXIS database for searching). That issue was decided in the Supreme Court Tasini case some years ago.

Since then, publshers have resolved the "problem" simplyh by rewriting their standard agreement to clarify that it embraces electronic redistribution. The case is limited to republication of content previously licensed for publication, and has no relevance for persons who did not originally have a license to publish the content.