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Reporting facts themselves can sometimes be an IP issue in the US due to the "Hot News" doctrine.
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Reporting facts themselves can sometimes be an IP issue in the US due to the "Hot News" doctrine.
- andrewfong 12y agoThe "hot news" doctrine is mostly dead these days.[1] And at worst, it delays wide-spread dissemination of news for a day, rather than suppress it outright. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/hot-news-doctrine-surviving-life-support https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/hot-news-doctrine-surv...
- EGreg 12y agoThere is also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
- andrewfong 12y agoFrom the linked article: "The United States rejected this doctrine in the 1991 United States Supreme Court case Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service"