Freelancers obtain $18 million in class-action settlement</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Freelancers obtain $18 million in class-action settlement"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Freelancers,obtain,$18,million,in,class-action,settlement"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">31-03-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Freelancers obtain $18 million in class-action settlement</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_z8Mxhf1BQ4GVQPAaDucY_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New York, USA (Jossip): A consortium of publishers including the New York Times, Dow Jones and Lexis-Nexis will be paying up to $18 million to freelancers as part of a class-action settlement. <br>It all started more than a decade ago, when freelancers grew angry over publishers reusing their work in online archives and collecting a profit. The Supreme Court agreed with the writers, declaring archiving amounted to reprinting and thus should benefit the original creator, who held the copyright before the articles went into the databases. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.jossip.com/gossip/media/newspapers/freelancer_funding_nyt_lexisnexis_agree_to_18m_payout_20050330.php " target="blank">www.jossip.com/gossip/media/newspapers/freelancer_funding_nyt_lexisnexis_agree_to_18m_payout_20050330.php </a> <br> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show