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[TITLE 50. Table of Contents]
50-2-1 Business of gathering and vending news a matter of public interest.
All persons, all associations of persons and all corporations
engaged in the business of buying, gathering or accumulating
information or news for publication, and vending, supplying,
distributing or disseminating the same for publication, either
to the members of such associations or corporations or otherwise,
shall be deemed to be engaged in a business upon which a
public interest is engrafted, and shall make no distinction
with respect to newspaper publishers desiring to purchase
such news or information for publication.
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50-2-2 Discrimination against newspaper publishers forbidden.
It shall be unlawful for any person, association of persons
or corporation engaged in gathering and furnishing news for
publication to make any discrimination or distinction with
respect to persons engaged in publishing newspapers.
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50-2-3 Combinations to control news unlawful.
Any combination having for its object or effect the controlling
of information or news gathered or accumulated for distribution
and publication shall be deemed a trust, and hostile to the
public welfare, and is prohibited and declared unlawful.
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50-2-4 Discrimination in service charges forbidden.
All associations of persons and corporations engaged in
the business of gathering and disseminating information or
news for publication by their members or stockholders, or
otherwise, shall be deemed to be engaged in a business in
which the public is interested, and shall furnish such news
to any and all newspapers desiring to publish the same at
the same price as charged to the members of such association
or corporation, or stockholders of any such corporation,
without discrimination between the members or stockholders
and such newspapers desiring to publish such information
and news; and shall render equal and impartial service to
all publishers of newspapers who shall offer to pay a reasonable
price therefor.
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50-2-5 Contracts in violation, void.
Any contract or agreement in violation of the provisions
of this chapter shall be absolutely void and not enforceable.
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50-2-6 Evidence to establish trust or combination.
In all actions brought under this chapter it shall be
sufficient to prove that a trust or combination as defined
herein existed, and that the defendant belonged to it, or
acted for or in connection with it, without proving or producing
any article of agreement, or any written instrument on which
it may have been based, or that it was evidenced by any written
instrument at all. The character of the trust or combination
alleged may be established by proof of its general reputation
as such.
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50-2-7 Telephone and telegraph companies deemed agents of vendors.
All telephone and telegraph companies employed to transmit
such information or news shall be deemed to be process agents
of such persons and corporations, and an offer to pay a reasonable
price to such telephone or telegraph companies shall be equivalent
to an offer to pay the same to the persons or corporations
gathering and disseminating such information or news.
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