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report of Cadbury-Schweppes (Pty) Ltd v. The Pub Squash
Co Ltd 1981 RPC 429
(PC) at pp 461-464).
Some guidance
is however to be obtained from the decision of the United
States Supreme Court in International News Service v. The
Associated Press (1918) 248 U.S. 215, a case which was con¬
sidered by CORBETT J in Dun &. Bradstreet (supra) at pp
219-221.
In that case the Court held by a majority that
it constituted unfair competition in trade for the defen¬
dant news agency to appropriate news gathered by the plain¬
tiff news agency for the purpose of selling it to the de¬
fendant's clients .
PITNEY J, who wrote the opinion of
the Court, said at 239-240:
"The right of the purchaser of a
single newspaper to spread knowledge
of
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