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Who owns your law blog content? Supreme Court decision highlights issue.

By Kevin

Of course you as a lawyer or legal professional own the content you publish to your law blog. But yesterday's Supreme Court decision reinstating a settlement in New York Times v Tasini highlights the murky waters we're going to navigate on this issue as more and more publishers re-purpose your blog content, with and without your permission as the blogger. Tasini, as reported by Adam Liptak of the New York Times, was a class action case brought by freelance writers claiming that newspapers and magazines had committed copyright infringement by making their contributions available through online databases. "We wrote for your newspaper or magazine and now you guys are archiving our content in a database available to subscribers. In some cases you are licensing our content to third parties (Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis) who then sell access to databases including our content...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on March 04, 2010 (boomark / email).