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The "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
by andrewfong 12y ago
The "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"