An ideal deal would allow writers to opt out of allowing their work to be sold through online databases. The press would have you believe that the worst copyright infringement occurring on the Internet is by lone hackers sitting at their computers. However, corporate owned and controlled newspapers and television news organizations are hardly disinterested parties in this story. If you would like to do your own reading on the issue of writers not being compensated when their work appears in corporate databases, check out the following links. Corrigan, Anne Marie.
Freelance writers struggle for rights.
Partners in Copyright Scam. Brill Meet to Resolve Contentville Dispute. Liss Jeffrey is still an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto's McLuhan Centre. I had mistakenly retired her in a previous article. I regret the error.