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By a 7-2 majority (Stevens and Breyer dissenting), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a September 1999 unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, which found that The New York Times and other publishers had committed copyright infringement when they resold freelance newspaper and magazine articles, via electronic databases such as LexisNexis, without asking permission or making additional payments to the original authors. See http://www.nwu.org/tvt/vichome.htm for additional details. Another issue where libraries will have to decide whether to support writers intellectual property rights, or to support publishers efforts to keep the cost of content down. -- Peter Webster, Head of Information Systems Patrick Power Library Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3 Ph. (902) 420-5507 Fx. (902) 420-5561