Northern Light Expands Content, Attacked By Writers
Northern Light now has material from nearly 3,000 publications available within its “Special Collections” area. It added more than 1,000 publications to the area at the end of January.
The Special Collections area allows people to search through articles from publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, The Economist and Rolling Stone. Matches are displayed, and users pay $1 to $4 to read the full-text of a story. Northern Light also offers a web-wide search service, which is free.
The Special Collections area also came under fire in January from freelance writers, concerned that their material possibly is being resold without permission.
Northern Light is not the only service to offer article reprints. However, it does allow free searching of the material its sells. That makes it an easy target for writers looking for misuse.
Northern Light buys the right to resell its Special Collections material mostly from third parties, and its says that any dispute is with these content aggregators. The writers and their organizations say Northern Light and others reselling articles without a writer’s permission are liable. The articles below go into the issue in more depth.
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