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This year I took part in the Widener University School of Law Constitution Day project, coordinated by Professor Alan Garfield, this year. My essay appears on the school's online Constitution Day site and it was also published in today's News Journal in Wilmington.
This year's theme for the Constitution Day essays was the future of news reporting. I approached the topic, of course, from an intellectual property perspective and revisited the seminal case of Associated Press v. International News Service. In that case, The Associated Press (AP) filed a lawsuit to stop International News Service (INS) from, among other things, copying news posted by AP to bulletin boards and published in east coast early editions and selling as its own on the west coast. Although the main issue was whether there was any legal basis to prevent INS from such copying, the more fundamental question was whether there exists any property right in news leads?
I also explore the role of hyperlinking news summaries, tweeting etc. in news reporting, generally and the printed publications crisis.
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