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19 Mar

Writers’ coalitions against TC Media, Toronto Star new freelance contracts

<p><strong>By Paula Last</strong></p><p>When freelance writer Ann Douglas received a new contract for her parenting column in the <em>Toronto Star</em>, she couldn’t sign it. The contract, <a href="http://www.thestoryboard.ca/why-i-am-no-longer-writing-the-column-i-loved-for-the-toronto-star/">Douglas said</a> gave permission to third parties to reuse her work without or editorial control and denied additional compensation. </p>

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1 Sep

Hockey blog accuses Toronto Sun of plagiarism

The Toronto Sun has been accused of plagiarizing a Maple Leaf blog’s translation of an article written in Czech. UPDATE: Toronto Sun editor-in-chief James Wallace has written a reply to […]

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15 Apr

Freelancers win right to file suit against Gazette, Canwest

The Electronic Rights Defence Committee (ERDC) has announced that a group of freelance writers won authorization from the Quebec Superior Court to pursue a class action law suit against the […]

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22 Dec

Copyright 101

What is copyright? Copyright gives writers and other artists ownership of their creations. The federal Copyright Act, R.S. 1985, c. C-42 forbids the unauthorized use, duplication or public display of […]

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22 Dec

Supreme Court upholds freelancers’ copyright

NewsDatabases compiled by newspapers and other publishers cannot reproduce freelance work without the agreement of writers, photographers and illustrators, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in October 2006. It is […]

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21 Dec

An online guide to copyright law

BackgrounderIn the simplest terms, “copyright” means “the right to copy.” Only the owner of copyright – usually the creator of the work – can produce or reproduce the work, or […]

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23 Oct

Copywrong

FeatureWho holds the right to secondary publication of articles stored in an online database — the publisher or the author? Adrienne Macintosh explores the issue in the Ryerson Review of […]

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