The U.S. Supreme Court decided 7-2 today that under U.S.
copyright law, electronic publication, of works previously published
in print, constitutes a revision of the original print edition.

This means that newspaper and magazine publishers must obtain
permission from free-lance authors to re-publish their works
on the Internet, at the publishers web site.

The case is known as "New York Times v. Tasini, 00-201".
The Associated Press article can be viewed at
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/25/scotus.copyright.ap/

Thanks to Joyce Brite for the tip.

Robbie Rhodes