New York Times v. Tasini: The U.S. Supreme Court Affirms “Authorial” Right in Copyright

Post publish date: July 13, 2001

This CRS report analyzed the Supreme Court’s Opinion in New York Times Co. v. Tasini, where the Court found for freelance authors in a case concerning the right of publishers to include copyrighted articles written by freelance authors in electronic databases under 17 U.S.C. 201(c).