Kat, I'm curious - what does a typical freelancer contract say? Once you've written your article, can it be reproduced ad infinitum in print, or do you get a payment for every time it's printed? And do you get an extra payment for ppl requesting reprints of old articles?

Just wondering. In industry, a contractor is called in to write some code or design a circuit, say - they do the job and that's it. What they've produced is then the property of the company. I guess this is different from how freelance writers work, then. I know that once I read an article on ZDNet about some issue, and in looking around the rest of the computer press for other info on the issue, I found that almost everywhere else just used the same report from the same writer!

Graham.