Tasini to run for Senate in NY

Of mild interest to those interested in copyright law, Jonathan Tasini is running against Hilary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for Senator from NY. Newsday reports: Labor activist to challenge Hillary Clinton for Senate.
Tasini was the lead plaintiff in New York Times v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483 (2001), where the Supreme Court ruled that a license to include a work in a newspaper or magazine does not grant the publisher the right to include that work in a database, if that database allows the work to be accessed independently of the work’s original context in a newspaper or magazine compilation.