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![]() View All Entries ![]() Copyright Alliance Supports Broadcasters' Cert Petition in AereoOn November 12, 2013, the Copyright Alliance filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the broadcaster’s petition for certiorari in ABC v. Aereo. The case arises out of a flawed US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruling earlier this year, which sanctioned Aereo’s subversive action. The lower court green lit Aereo under a perceived loophole in the Copyright Act, rooted in their equally enigmatic 2009 Cablevision decision. “in an age where the present and future business of copyright dissemination, especially via the Internet, is increasingly focused on dissemination via performance (including through on-demand music services such as Spotify and Rdio), the ability to reap benefits from the public performance right is one that has been, and needs to be, cautiously protected so that these industries can continue to thrive.” If Aereo is allowed to stand, existing licensed legitimate businesses would lose the incentive to pay for broadcasters’ creative content. Without the promise of compensation, there would be little to no incentive for the creation of these works. The consumers who enjoy and rely upon creative works will ultimately feel this loss, rendering Aereo a truly “destructive” technology. “The only difference between licensed retransmission services and Aereo is that Aereo makes hundreds of intermediate copies in the process of retransmission. These copies do not make Aereo’s system operate better, faster, more cheaply, or more efficiently. Rather, they are technological inefficiencies shamelessly designed to exploit what the creators of Aereo – or their lawyers – believed was a loophole in the law.” Ultimately, the Second Circuit’s Aereo decision incentivizes developers to create delivery services that game the copyright system, rather than develop better means of delivery. |
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