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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.