The New York Times Co., Newsday Inc. et al.
Petitioners
Laurence H. Tribe, Counsel of RecordThe New York Times Co. and Newsday are joined in this lawsuit by The Time Incorporated Magazine Co., LEXIS/NEXIS, and University Microfilms International. Petitioners appealed a September 24, 1999, decision by the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the distribution of freelance articles from magazines and newspapers to electronic databases without the authors’ explicit permission violated the copyrights of those writers. They argued that the Copyright Act of 1976 allowed them to produce "revisions" of their publications, and inclusion in electronic databases was simply a new version of the same publication in a different…
