Wainwright Securities Inc. v. Wall Street Transcript Corp.
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Wainwright Securities v. Wall Street Transcript Corp (1977) was a case in which a weekly newspaper was found to have infringed on the copyright of a publisher of reports that analyzed corporate finances, risks and opportunities. The newspaper's defense that the findings of such reports were news items was rejected, since the newspaper was found to have violated copyright through substantial similarities with the expression used in the Wainwright reports.[1]
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Wainwright Securities v. Wall Street Transcript Corp | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Full case name | WAINWRIGHT SECURITIES INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WALL STREET TRANSCRIPT CORPORATION and Richard A. Holman, Defendants-Appellants. |
Argued | 27 April 1977 |
Decided | 15 June 1977 |
Citation(s) | 558 F.2d 91 |
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Judge(s) sitting | MEDINA, OAKES and MISHLER |
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The essence or purpose of legitimate journalism is the reporting of objective facts or developments, not the appropriation of the form of expression used by the news source | |
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copyright infringement |
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