Freelancers drop Globe ruling appeal: Officially ending more than three years of litigation against The Boston Globe, a group of freelance writers and photographers said they will drop their appeal of a November 2002 ruling in favor of the newspaper.
The lawsuit, filed in June 2000, challenged a newly introduced Globe licensing agreement that allowed freelancers to keep their copyright, but gave the paper permission to reproduce their past and future work in other forms, including online, without additional compensation.
The suit over the freelancers' work was viewed by many as a test case in the battle over ownership of online content.
