The lawyers for Heather Robertson have announced the settlement of the “Robertson 2” class action copyright case. The freelance authors reached a tentative settlement worth more than $5 million with the publisher defendants which include the Toronto Star, Rogers Publishing Limited, CEDROM-SNi Inc., and ProQuest Information and Learning LLC.
The suit alleged that the defendants infringed on the copyrights of the freelance writers by disseminating their articles online without their consent.
There will be a hearing in the Ontario Superior Court on April 11 for the court to consider whether to approve the settlement.
