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Reuters: Unpaid internships are legal when they are closely tied to interns’ educations, a U.S. appeals court in Manhattan said in reversing a decision that Fox Searchlight Pictures broke the law by not paying interns. As long as internships are designed chiefly to further young people’s knowledge in a particular field, the court said, interns do not have to be paid. In a separate decision, the court upheld a judge’s ruling that Hearst did not have to pay interns who worked on its popular magazines. The court sent the cases back to judges in Manhattan to decide whether the Fox and Hearst internships were primarily educational.