The Supreme Court should grant broadcasters’ cert petition...
The Supreme Court should grant broadcasters’ cert petition against Aereo to keep the streaming TV service and court decisions upholding it from threatening “the existence of the American broadcast industry as the nation has come to know it,” said the…
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Media Institute in an amicus brief filed Tuesday (http://bit.ly/17S91CA). Aereo’s model for streaming broadcaster content is “a pretext of legal cover” allowing Aereo to traffic in copyrighted content, said the brief. “Aereo’s bizarre engineering, employing thousands of antennas to do the work of one, reveals to all what is really going on.” The brief criticized the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling denying a preliminary injunction against Aereo and asked the Supreme Court to reject it. “This Court should grant the petition to vindicate the clear intent of Congress to protect the copyright interests vested in broadcasters from unfair exploitation,” said the institute.