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NEW YORK TIMES CO. v. TASINI

No. 00-201.

533 U.S. 483 (2001)

NEW YORK TIMES CO., INC., et al. v. TASINI et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided June 25, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence H. Tribe argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Jonathan S. Massey, Bruce P. Keller, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Michael R. Potenza, Peter C. Johnson, and Thomas C. Goldstein.

Laurence Gold argued the cause for respondents Tasini et al. With him on the brief were Patricia A. Felch, Daniel W. Sherrick, Michael H. Gottesman, and Leon Dayan. Emily Maruja Bass filed a brief for respondents Garson et al.*

Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Breyer, J., joined, p. 506.

Justice Ginsburg, delivered the opinion of the Court.

This copyright case concerns the rights of freelance authors and a presumptive privilege of their publishers. The litigation was initiated by six freelance authors and relates to articles they contributed to three print periodicals (two newspapers and one magazine). Under agreements with the periodicals' publishers, but without the freelancers' consent, two computer database companies placed copies of the freelancers...

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