KRS 365.220: Request for news and offer to pay charges; no business to be done after

refusal.

(1) Any person carrying on in this state the business of conducting or publishing a

newspaper may notify any foreign corporation of the kind referred to in KRS

365.210, or any agent of such corporation upon whom process can be served under

the laws of this state, that he desires to purchase or be supplied with the news or

information bought, gathered or accumulated by such corporation, and offer to pay

the same charges or prices therefor that are exacted by such corporation from other

persons carrying on in this state the business of conducting or publishing a

newspaper.

(2) No such corporation, and no agent or employee thereof, or other person, shall carry

on, transact or cause to be conducted any of the business of the corporation in this

state after the corporation has refused to vend, supply, distribute or publish the

information or news bought, gathered or accumulated by it to any person who has

given the notice and made the offer provided for in subsection (1) of this section.