On 5/22/97, Robert Cumbow <cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
See International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U.S. 215 (1918), case on point werein the US Supreme Ct. protected the value of news ("fact") collection over and above the expression.
Kevin Gard
<gard[_at_]switch.rockwell.com>
Received on Tue May 27 1997 - 16:13:15 GMT
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