• Advertising Age, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:14 PM

"Any media company that has taken on unpaid interns in the last six years could face a lawsuit" -- at least in New York, according to a legal expert quoted in this post on the new trend of litigious interns. While "unpaid internships save companies at least $2 billion a year," according to Ross Perlin, author of the book "Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy," attorneys  counsel against the practice.

And such publishers as "Steven Kotok, CEO at The Week and Mental Floss magazines, hopes the unpaid internship model ends," writes Michael Sebastian. "When I see this kind of system that gives access to the publishing world to people with other means of support, it has me rooting that the system would end and everyone would have a fair shot, whether or not they have other financial support," Kotok tells Sebastian.

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