Writer Heather Robertson, who championed copyrights of her freelance colleagues, dies at 72

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Heather Robertson, the Canadian magazine writer and author died Wednesday on her 72nd birthday. Her colleagues  and freelancers everywhere owe her an enormous debt of gratitude, particularly since she was the lead plaintiff in two long-running suits over the electronic rights of writers. These settled that newspapers and periodicals could not appropriate writers' work