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The broadcast industry—the Big Four Television Networks, specifically—scored a significant victory over Locast earlier this week in the Networks’ copyright infringement lawsuit against the streaming service.  In response to the...

In an important about-face, the Commission’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau recently issued an Order declining to terminate an ongoing proceeding in which the Commission is considering whether to treat...

Many television broadcasters are keeping an eye on Locast—an Internet-based streaming service that picks up over-the-air broadcast signals and streams them live over the Internet on Locast’s website and apps...

Settlement of the ongoing legal battle over copyright between broadcasters and FilmOn X has been announced—but precious few details are available due to the confidential nature of the settlement. As...

In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Internet streaming service Aereo infringed copyright holders’ exclusive rights when it captured programs broadcast over the air and retransmitted them to paying...

In November 2015, a D.C. federal court ruled that Internet video streaming service FilmOn X could not invoke the compulsory copyright license available to cable systems under Section 111 of the...

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Aereo decision in 2014, the battle between broadcasters and internet streaming services shifted to focus on whether online video distributors (OVDs) such as FilmOn X...

In a potentially game-changing decision, a federal trial judge in California held Thursday that FilmOn X, an online streaming company, should be treated for purposes of copyright law as a...

A number of television stations across the country have received letters (view copy of letter) from FilmOn X stating it intends to retransmit the signals of television stations on the...

A New York federal court in late October dealt another blow to Internet streaming service Aereo when it granted broadcasters’ request for a preliminary injunction.  The court’s Oct. 23 order prohibits...