> Even if the initial ruling was in
> your favor, the Tribune would appeal and appeal and appeal.  Newspapers
> have gone to great lengths to seize and control all copyrights they can,
> and they will fight fiercely to keep the interpretation of the copyright
> law as narrow as possible.

It doesn't always work the other way round though - National Geographic (big
deep deep pockets) have just essentially lost a major case over infringing
the copyright of one of their photographers (with many more to come).

They took it all the way to appeals courts and back down to the original
Court, fighting it all the way.

Of course they tried to claim the moral high ground, even when the Judge
found against them - (it's for the complete NG magazine on CD-ROM) - saying
this was a loss to education and the historical record etc etc - when the
plain truth of the case, which the Judge commented on, was that the NGS
didn't want to pay for what wasn't theirs and went ahead anyway and made the
CD sets. (most probably it seems, because they thought they could get away
with it and win any legal challenge by throwing lawyers, money and delays at
it)

Point being, the little guy doesn't always loose against big bucks.

But this is probably veering way off topic now...

tim

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