Dan Agin <specpress[_at_]earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> News is not protected, only the expression of news is protected.
This statement is true only in copyright analysis. The common law tort of misappropriation is alive, if not entirely well, in many jurisdictions.
> So what are we talking about here? Is there such an entity as a
> "misappropriation" of a fact?
There may very well be. That, at least, as I understand it, is the point of this thread.
Bob Cumbow
<cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com>
Received on Thu May 22 1997 - 20:20:02 GMT
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