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Broadcast Networks Score Significant Victory in Litigation Against Locast; Streaming Service Suspends Operations September 2, 2021

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...

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FCC Declines to Terminate Proceeding Seeking to Classify OVDs as MVPDs for Retransmission Consent Purposes October 6, 2020

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...

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AT&T Invests in Free Internet Streaming Service “Locast”; Broadcasters Keeping Watchful Eye July 1, 2019

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...

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Broadcasters Settle Copyright Dispute With FilmOn X May 17, 2017

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...

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Ninth Circuit Rejects FilmOn X’s Bid for the Compulsory Copyright License March 22, 2017

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...

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D.C. Federal Court Explains that Internet Video Streaming Services Don’t Qualify for a Compulsory Copyright License January 6, 2016

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...

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D.C. Federal Court Deals Blow to FilmOn X Copyright Campaign November 18, 2015

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...

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Federal Court Rules FilmOn X Entitled to Compulsory Copyright License July 21, 2015

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...

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Prompt Attention Required to Letter from FilmOn X November 12, 2014

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...

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New York Federal Court Enjoins Aereo Service from Streaming Live Broadcast Programming Nationwide November 3, 2014

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...

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