International News Service v. Associated Press
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. Facts are public and not private property. Davies v. Bowes, 209 Fed. Rep.- 53, 56; Tribune Co. v. Illinois Publishing Co., 76 Publishers’ Weekly, 643, -947; Thompson Co.,v. American Law Book Co., .122 Fed. Rep. 922; West Pub. Co. v. Thompson Co., 176 Fed.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. Facts are public and not private property. Davies v. Bowes, 209 Fed. Rep.- 53, 56; Tribune Co. v. Illinois Publishing Co., 76 Publishers’ Weekly, 643, -947; Thompson Co.,v. American Law Book Co., .122 Fed. Rep. 922; West Pub. Co. v. Thompson Co., 176 Fed. Rep. 839; Clayton v. Stone, 2 Paine, 382; Baker v. Selden, 101 U. S. 99. As respondent does not copyright its news, and as the decree is not grounded on any statutory right, respondent must stand or fall on a common-law right. Its position…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
The parties are competitors in the gathering and distribution of news and its publication for profit in newspapers throughout the United States. The Associated Press, which was complainant in the District Court, is a cooperative organization, incorporated under the Membership Corporations Law of the State of New York, its members being individuals who are either proprietors or representatives of about 950 daily newspapers published in all parts of the United States. That a corporation may be organized under that act for the purpose of gathering news for the use and benefit of its-members and…
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