Common use of EDITORIAL INTEGRITY Clause in Contracts

EDITORIAL INTEGRITY. (a) Except for columns and opinion pieces, the Employer shall not use bylines over the employee's protest. (b) Whenever substantive changes are made to editorial content produced by an employee, an effort will be made to discuss the changes with the employee before publication or sale of the content, in any format, by the Chatham Daily News or any entity associated with Sun Media or Quebecor Media. If the discussion does not take place, or the employee wishes to withhold his or her byline or credit, the byline or credit shall not be used. (c) Articles written or photograph(s) taken by employees on their own time that would be of news interest to the newspaper, shall first be offered to the Employer for use in its publication. Employer acceptance or rejection of articles or photographs shall, in the case of breaking news, be given within twenty-four (24) hours of notification to the Employer. Response to other content shall be given within five days of notification. Where the Employer has rejected an article or photograph, the employee may submit it to a non- competing publication. Compensation for articles and photographs used shall be a minimum of one hour’s pay at the overtime rate. (d) The Employer will not publish letters to the editor or other material critical of employees without first making a reasonable attempt to contact the employee concerned. (e) On the basis of the rates of compensation established in this contract the Employer is the owner of all copyrights on all material produced by editorial employees in the course of their employment with The Chatham Daily News and has the full right to reproduce, publish, translate, broadcast, distribute, archive, sell or license this material in any manner, form or medium that the Employer chooses, including electronic form and Internet. It is agreed that any employee producing content or material waives any and all rights, including moral rights, with regard to that content or material.