Tri-State Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. United Press International, Inc.

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• holding that United Press’s written news reports, provided as a supplement to its broadcast, were incidental to the contract’s purpose of allowing Tri-State the right to its news information
• holding that United Press's written news reports, provided as a supplement to its broadcast, were incidental to the contract's purpose of allowing Tri-State the right to its news information
• written news reports from reporting service are not a “commodity” under same statutory provision
• “Section 2(a) of the Act was intended to encompass only tangible articles of commerce”
• transfer under an agency or consignment agreement not a “sale”
• news wire services are not goods

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).