Wall Street Journal – Andertoons Cartoon Blog

“…when a magazine wants to republish a free-lance work in a new and different format, the free-lancer must be compensated accordingly, two more-recent court rulings have found. That means when republishing articles on DVD or other digital formats, magazines must pay free-lancers again, get their permission to republish free — or preserve the original print context. The New Yorker’s solution was to scan the original magazine pages onto DVDs.”

So as long as they scan in the entire page, they don’t have to pay for further usage.

Methinks the monocle is biting the hand that fed it; not to mention the possible implications for Google’s recent en masse book scanning.

It’s a scary time to be providing content…

(Thanks be to Comics Reporter and Boing Boing.)

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More Than A Little Humor

September 9, 2005December 26, 2009 andertoons

I’d almost forgotten about this, and technically he’s the competition, but if you haven’t checked out Tom Cheney’s “A Little Humor” addition to The Wall Street Journal’s Career Journal website, you’re really missing some fantastic cartooning.

Cheney’s one of those cartoonists that really makes me jealous. Wildly funny and original, his stuff is immediately recognizable and should find its way to Addams/Arno levels of appreciation in the not too distant future. Check him out…