What if Aereo Inc. is right and the U.S. Copyright Office is wrong?
The little upstart that had the chutzpah to challenge the goliath television companies by streaming supposedly free over-the-air broadcasts to customers lost its case in the U.S. Supreme Court last month. In American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo, the court ruled that television broadcasters’ copyrights were infringed, finding that Aereo looked like a cable TV company and, therefore, the Copyright Act definitions of a “public performance” applied to its services.
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