The National Writers Union (NWU) executive board and Steven Brill have reached an agreement over the sale of free-lance work on Contentville.com. NWU and Contentville are drafting the final contract language, which is expected to be completed soon.

Two weeks ago, authors were alerted to check for content that was being reprinted without their consent at www.contentville.com. The site lists nearly 1,000 magazine titles including Fantasy and Science Fiction and Starlog. The service offers online reprints of magazine articles for $2.95 each.

The agreement provides for writers to receive 30 percent of the download fee. The agreement is non-exclusive and retroactive.

Authors are still urged to check the Contentville site for content that may be offered for sale without their consent.

More details are available at http://www.nwu.org/journ/cv1.htm.

Postted August 4, 2000