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Tasini Redux

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

The Tasini case is back in the US Supreme Court. It will be recalled that the authors won a victory of sorts several years ago and the US Supremes rendered a judgment that strongly encouraged a settlement so that important databases could remain intact.The trouble is that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to approve the resulting $18 million settlement on the basis that it had no

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).