Tribune Co. of Chicago v. Associated Press
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
In Equity. On motion for preliminary injunction to restrain alleged infringement of copyright, based on bill and answer and on certain stipulated exhibits. History of the case: The Chicago Tribune, by agreement with the London Times, secured for use in the Tribune's columns the war news especially gathered by the Times, and its editorial comments thereon.
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In Equity. On motion for preliminary injunction to restrain alleged infringement of copyright, based on bill and answer and on certain stipulated exhibits. History of the case: The Chicago Tribune, by agreement with the London Times, secured for use in the Tribune's columns the war news especially gathered by the Times, and its editorial comments thereon. The Times, which is copyrighted each day, released its copyright as to such articles as the Tribune's correspondent might choose to forward to his paper; the Tribune undertaking to copyright its daily edition simultaneously with the…
1Opinion of the Court
SEAMAN, District Judge.
The publications in controversy are contained in daily newspapers, and relate to news of the South African war and editorial comments appearing in the London Times, abstracted on the part of the Tribune Company immediately before publication in London, under an arrangement with the publishers of the Times, and cabled to the Tribune by the agent of the latter, and published in its first edition in Chicago on the same morning of the publication in the Times, the difference in time between this country and London favoring such result. The bill avers that the defendant…
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