The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated an $18 million settlement between publishers and freelance writers in a copyright case about work included in online databases.
The Supreme Court was unanimous in its decision, which overturned an appeals court ruling that threw out the settlement.
The publishers had appealed to the high court in an effort to reinstate the settlement, reached in 2005 after about four years of negotiations over writers’ assertions that their contracts did not allow for publication of their work electronically.
The publishers included Reed Elsevier, The New York Times Company, the Thomson Reuters Corporation, the News Corporation’s Dow Jones & Company and Knight Ridder, which was bought by the McClatchy Company in 2006.
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