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How to put the word to rights

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How to put the word to rights

Journalists who write for the web are being forced into the courts to defend their copyright. Now, says Sean Dodson, one man thinks he has the solution, a site that markets articles to editors

Monday November 13, 2000

Journalists are not used to taking up cudgels for copyright. But now a number of recent high-profile disputes over the issue have begun to make many of them sit up and start fighting for their rights on the web.

Last month, leading online journal Salon.com sent out contracts to its freelance writers. For most, this was the first contract the publication had ever sent them. The contracts asked the writers to give up resale rights to their published work in exchange for 25% of the resale fee.

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