6-702. UNIFORM SINGLE PUBLICATION ACT — ONE CAUSE OF ACTION FOR LIBEL OR SLANDER — RECOVERY. No person shall have more than one (1) cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication or exhibition or utterance, such as any one (1) edition of a newspaper or book or magazine or any one (1) presentation to an audience or any one (1) broadcast over radio or television or any one (1) exhibition of a motion picture. Recovery in any action shall include all damages for any such tort suffered by the plaintiff in all jurisdictions.
History:
[6-702, added 1953, ch. 109, sec. 1, p. 143.]
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Title 6 - ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES
Section 6-703 - JUDGMENT A BAR TO SECOND ACTION.
Section 6-704 - INTERPRETATION OF ACT.
Section 6-706 - RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTING STATION OR NETWORK OF STATIONS — PROOF OF MALICE.
Section 6-707 - RIGHT OF STATION TO REQUIRE SUBMISSION OF MATTER INTENDED TO BE BROADCAST.
Section 6-709 - LIABILITY IN CASE OF JOINT OPERATION.
Section 6-710 - PRIVILEGED BROADCASTS.
Section 6-711 - MALICE NOT INFERRED FROM BROADCAST.
Section 6-713 - PRIVILEGED PUBLICATION IN NEWSPAPER DEFINED.