[PW] Lexis/Nexis question

[Donna Halper]

At 07:23 PM 1/11/2008, Beuerlein, Pat (Edm Journal) wrote:
>On 1/11/08 Donna Halper wrote:
>
>If the item was written by a freelancer instead of a Herald staffer, it may
>have been removed for legal/copyright reasons -- see the Tasini case
>ruling on payment to freelancers for electronic reproduction rights. The
>decision affected a lot of material from before freelance contracts covered
>use in outside databases, Web sites, CDs and such, and many stories were
>removed from the databases of aggregators like L/N.

Yeah, I originally thought "Tasini Decision"... but the mystery is 
the entire Miami Herald isn't included on Lexis/Nexis at all-- go to 
the Florida newspapers, and it's gone.  And Newsbank only has 1993 
and onward-- L/N used to have the Herald till the recent set of 
"updates."  I wonder how these decisions are made.