Publisher, Writers Group Negotiate Online Rights

The National Writers Union and Primedia have begun discussions on the sales and licensing of copyrighted materials from the company's 280 titles, which include Seventeen, Motor Trend and New York. The negotiations follow the June 25 Tasini v. The New York Times case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that free-lance writers can control whether their works that are sold for print publication can also be reproduced in electronic form.