Studios, TV stations ask Supreme Court to block Aereo
24 10 2013Still unsatisfied with losing at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (and other lower courts as well), a group of major TV stations and film studios has decided to take its case to the highest court in the land. In a 209-page filing, ABC, Disney, CBS, NBC, and several others are asking the Supreme Court to take up their case against Aereo, the online TV startup.”The question presented is: Whether a company ‘publicly performs’ a copyrighted television program when it retransmits a broadcast of that program to thousands of paid subscribers over the Internet,” write the petitioners.
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