Here’s a nice (and rare) victory for folks who make their living stringing words together.
The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of freelancer Heather Robertson, whose Globe and Mail pieces wound up in the paper’s online database.
The case echoes a U.S. Supreme Court decision (see also this perspective) which found that freelancers retain digital rights to their work after it’s published in a newspaper.
(Interested in finding out more? Here’s a huge collection of links compiled by freelancer Peter D.A. Warwick.)
