Further to this post about the court hearings currently underway in Montreal, below is the letter of support prepared by our national president and executive director. Craig Silverman, our chapter president, presented the letter in court yesterday but was prevented from reading its contents into the record. He did however get the opportunity to offer [...]
This Monday morning (Feb. 25), a very important court case is getting underway in Montreal. It is a class action lawsuit against the
Montreal Gazette and its owners etc. on behalf of freelance writers. The issue is that “for years freelancers’ work was (and frequently still is) reproduced electronically without consent or compensation,” according [...]
The New York Observer published an interesting item today about how one New York Times editor is trying to get contributors to work for free:
Back in April, the New York Times’ glossy sports magazine Play, which appears as a Sunday insert four times a year, rolled out a weekly e-mail newsletter…
Play managing editor Bill Brink told [...]
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