Aereo

2nd Circuit: Aereo streaming of individual over-the-air TV feeds via internet doesn't violate copyright law

Monday, April 1, 2013

2nd Circuit: Aereo streaming of individual over-the-air TV feeds via internet doesn’t violate copyright lawThe Second Circuit has held in WNET v Aereo (PDF) that sending a unique stream of over-the-air TV signal to customers via the internet isn’t a copyright violation. Aereo assign each of …

Professor David Post: Copyright is meant to benefit the public

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Professor David Post: Copyright is meant to benefit the publicProfessor Post, writing at The Volokh Conspiracy about the brief he helped write in the Aereo case: copyright law does not exist for the benefit of authors; it uses the benefit granted to authors because that is a means to increase the …