Are You Eligible for Payments Under Tasini

From Robert Ambrogi's LawSites, 6/14/2005:

"Have you published any articles on a freelance basis
since 1978? If so, you may be eligible to receive
additional payment for your work as part of a class
action settlement. Complete details, including claim
forms and important deadlines, can be found at
CopyrightClassAction.com.

The proposed settlement stems from the landmark
case Tasini v. The New York Times, in which free-
lance writers charged major publishers and electronic
databases with copyright violations for reuse of their
work. After almost three years of negotiations, the
parties reached this proposed settlement. It applies
to anyone who owned a copyright in an English-
language work that, at any time after Aug. 14,
1997, was made available in electronic format with-
out the author's permission. Claims can be filed for
any story written after 1978, provided it was
available in electronic form any time after Aug.
14, 1997. The Web site lists the participating
publishers and databases.

For writers who registered their works with the
U.S. Copyright Office, they may be entitled to
payments of as much as $1,500 per article. Those
who did not register their articles will receive a
maximum of $60 per article.The settlement has
been given only preliminary approval by the court.
A hearing to decide whether to give final approval
is scheduled for July 28 in U.S. District Court in
Manhattan."