Single Publication: One Cause of Action

Single Publication: One Cause of Action. No person shall have more than one 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 edition of a newspaper or book or magazine or any one presentation to an audience or any one broadcast over radio or television or any one exhibition of a motion picture. Recovery in any action shall include all damages for any such tort suffered by the plaintiff in all jurisdictions. Nothing in this section shall be construed as creating a cause of action which does not otherwise exist. Source: 6 TTC § 501. Commission Comment: The Uniform Single Publication Act was approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Bar Association in 1952. This article includes almost all of the language in the uniform act, which has been adopted in some U.S. jurisdictions.