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Supreme Court Grants <i>Cert</i> in <i>Aereo</i> Case

<i>Aereo</i>may turn out to be one of the most important copyright decisions since enactment of the Copyright Act of 1976, with potential wide-ranging ramifications for the television industry and the fast-growing cloud computing industry.

27 minute read February 28, 2014 at 11:00 PM
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J. Alexander Lawrence, David S. Brown
Supreme Court Grants <i>Cert</i> in <i>Aereo</i> Case

On Jan. 10, 2014, the Supreme Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the major broadcast networks, as well as other copyright holders, requesting that it overturn a Second Circuit decision regarding whether Aereo Inc., which “streams” broadcast television over the internet to subscribers without paying any retransmission fees, infringes those broadcasters' copyrights.

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