This advertisement is part of the MPA's 2001 ad campaign to fight the United States Postal Service's NEW proposed rate increase. Currently running in the National Journal, this ad has the support of several interested parties who, like the MPA, believe another postal rate hike is unwarranted and unnecessary. For more information on this issue, click here. The 2001 National Magazine Awards, the most prestigious editorial honor in the magazine industry, were presented today at a gala event at The Waldorf-Astoria before 1,200 editors, publishers and their guests.
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The winning team will be honored on May 22 nd at the Regent Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The Grand Prize is given annually to an advertising agency s creative team that produced the best advertising campaign in magazines. Additionally, Dan Capell and John Harrington offered some evaluations of the industry's responses to the shifts, and offered some suggestions for the future. On March 28, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Tasini v. New York Times, et al, the pivotal copyright case that will go far toward determining a publisher's right to make works available in digital format. The case has been in litigation for the past seven years, with magazine and newspaper publishers arguing that they have the right under U.S. copyright law to make their works available through digital archives without incurring new financial obligations to freelance contributors to the original publications.