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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...

The Commission has imposed a large penalty—finally—on a group of cable operators for unauthorized retransmission of the broadcast signals of six different television stations.  The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has imposed...

The United States Supreme Court held today in a 6-3 opinion that Internet streaming service Aereo is illegal under the Copyright Act.  The Court found that Aereo’s service “publicly performs”...

The United States Supreme Court today granted broadcasters' petition for a writ of certiorari in the ongoing litigation against Aereo, Inc., the Internet-based retransmission service. The Supreme Court has agreed...