An appeals court ruling that online video distributor Ivi doesn’t...
An appeals court ruling that online video distributor Ivi doesn’t qualify as a cable system for the purposes of the compulsory license in Section 111 of the Copyright Act (CD Aug 28 p4) bodes well for broadcasters who are fighting…
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a different battle in the same circuit against Aereo, wrote Guggenheim Partners analyst Paul Gallant. “While the statutory interpretation questions in ivi and Aereo are different, we believe it is clearly helpful to broadcasters that the ivi court placed such emphasis on the potential disruption to the broadcast business from unauthorized online streaming,” Gallant wrote. “Broadcasters will undoubtedly stress such potential disruption from Aereo when they appeal” the lower court’s ruling this fall, he said. Rather than retransmitting TV signals as a cable system would, Aereo has argued it is facilitating individuals’ ability to play back recorded over-the-air signals, Gallant wrote. A spokeswoman for Aereo declined to comment.