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Balboa Insurance Co. v. Trans Global Equities
Balboa Ins. Co. v. Trans Global Equities, 218 Cal.App.3d 1327 (Cal. Ct. App. 1990)
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Decided 21 March 1990 by the California Court of Appeal.
A hot news misappropriation rule binding public and private bodies.
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California Court of Appeal decision establishing the state's common-law misappropriation doctrine, requiring a plaintiff to show: (1) substantial investment of time and money in developing an intangible asset; (2) defendant's appropriation at little or no cost; and (3) resulting injury to plaintiff.
This doctrine underpins California hot-news misappropriation claims for time-sensitive news content, but its scope is substantially curtailed by 17 U.S.C. §301 federal copyright preemption whenever the misappropriated material falls within the subject matter of copyright, leaving only a narrow residual category for facts or time-sensitive information not themselves independently copyrightable.
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