A riddle whose answer is 'tort':A reassessment of International News Service v Associated Press

Wadlow, Christopher (2013) A riddle whose answer is 'tort':A reassessment of International News Service v Associated Press. The Modern Law Review, 76 (4). pp. 649-680. ISSN 1468-2230

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Abstract

The decision of the US Supreme Court in International News v Associated Press (1918) has variously been interpreted as recognising a ‘quasi-property’ right in ‘valuable intangibles’, such as hot news; as turning on unjust enrichment; or as creating a novel tort of unfair competition by misappropriation. It is suggested that the case is more authentically understood as an incidental result of a process by which the Supreme Court extended the boundaries of tort liability, and the corresponding scope of property protection, in a series of decisions against organised labour. The argument is pursued with reference to the prima facie tort theory of Holmes, the American ‘labour injunction’, and the labour law record of the author of the majority opinion in International News, Justice Mahlon Pitney

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Media, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law
Depositing User:	Christopher Wadlow
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2013 17:01
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2022 00:05
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40947
DOI:	10.1111/1468-2230.12029

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