Monday, April 01, 2013

Second Circuit -- WNET, Thirteen v. Aereo, Inc.; Am. Broad. Cos., Inc. v. Aereo, Inc.

Subscriber-requested simultaneous one-to-one transmission of copyrighted content is not a performance for copyright purposes.

Dissent: one-to-one technology irrelevant -- the system functions as a broadcast.

WNET, Thirteen v. Aereo, Inc.; Am. Broad. Cos., Inc. v. Aereo, Inc.
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