At 06:31 PM 10/9/01 -0700, David Honig wrote:
This agreement isn't enforcable, is it? Even if it were, by the time you've sued them for damage to your rep for misquoting, its too late.
Agreements similar to this that sources make with media organizations have been held by courts to be enforceable, yes. I suspect this one would be too. Too late? How about damages.
It would be better for Tim (etc) to do a writeup, post it, and point to it. Then others could find the original and compare reporters'
No, reporters will want to ask questions on the phone, or, more rarely, in person for audio or video taping. (There are many good reasons for this.) An essay by Tim isn't good enough for those reasons and also, frankly, for more parochial reasons of "exclusivity." -Declan