Hall

The basic issue presented by this appeal is whether a corporation, organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit *953 Corporation Law (Corp. Code, § 5110 et seq.), can require of a member, as a condition to inspecting and copying the membership list, that the corporation have the right to inspect the materials to be mailed by the member prior to their distribution.

Defendant Laurence S. Hall appeals from the trial court’s order setting aside demand for inspection of membership mailing list of respondent KQED, Inc.

The parties to the suit are respondent KQED, Inc., a California broadcasting nonprofit corporation with its principal place of business in San Francisco, and appellant Hall, chairman of a group called “Committee to Save KQED” (hereafter: Committee). The subject matter of the litigation is access to KQED’s membership list which the Committee repeatedly attempted to obtain in order to further its organizational activities and to solicit funds from KQED members. The facts preceding the present action may be summarized as follows.

The Committee’s first attempt to obtain the list took place in the middle of 1975. When KQED rejected the request, the Committee, in…