Editing International News Service (section)

==''International News Service v. Associated Press''==
During the early years of [[World War I]], Hearst's INS was barred from using Allied telegraph lines, because of reporting of British losses.<ref>Koenigsberg, M. (1941). ''King News: An Autobiography''. United States: F.A. Stokes Company, p. 454.</ref> INS made do by allegedly taking news stories off AP bulletin boards, rewriting them and selling them to other outlets. AP sued INS and the case reached the United States Supreme Court.<ref name=Findlaw/>

The case was considered important in terms of distinguishing between upholding the [[common law]] rule of "no copyright in facts", and applying the common law doctrine of misappropriation through the [[tort]] of [[unfair competition]]. In ''[[International News Service v. Associated Press]]'' of 1918, [[Judge|Justice]] [[Mahlon Pitney]] wrote for the majority in ruling that INS was infringing on AP's "lead-time protection", and defining it as an unfair business practice. Pitney narrowed the period for which the newly defined proprietary right would apply: this doctrine "postpones participation by complainant's competitor in the processes of distribution and reproduction of news that it has not gathered, and only to the extent necessary to prevent that competitor from reaping the fruits of complainant's efforts and expenditure."<ref name=Findlaw>{{cite web|url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=248&invol=215|title=FindLaw's United States Supreme Court case and opinions.|website=Findlaw}}</ref> Justice [[Louis D. Brandeis]] wrote a minority opinion, objecting to the court's creating a new private property right.