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| Int'l News Serv. v. AP, No. 221,
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, December 23, 1918
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Overview: Defendant engaged in the systematic practice of taking the bodies of news stories from bulletin boards and early editions of complainant's newspapers and selling them as its own. Complainant sued, seeking, among other things, to enjoin defendant from engaging in such activity. The trial court decided to withhold the injunction in anticipation of the appeal. The appellate court, however, issued the injunction and thus restrained defendant from taking or gainfully using any of complainant's news until its commercial value as news had passed away. Emphasizing the competitive relationship between the parties, the Supreme Court concluded that, although it involved misappropriation rather than misrepresentation, defendant's strategy amounted to unfair competition in business. Refusing to create a more specific injunction, the court affirmed the decree of the appellate court.
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