Cablevision Systems released a white paper titled “Aereo and the Public Performance Right” that lays out in full detail the company’s legal position on the controversial Aereo service. It asserts that the Aereo service violates the copyright laws because it retransmits broadcast content without a license – “a fact that has the major television broadcasters justifiably upset.”
Cablevision, however, strongly rejects anti-Aereo arguments made by broadcasters including ABC, CBS and FOX – in their petition before the Supreme Court as both overreaching and damaging.
In that petition, the broadcasters attempt to overturn the important principles of federal copyright law confirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in its 2008 Cablevision remote-storage DVR (RS-DVR) decision.
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Cablevision Systems released a white paper titled “Aereo and the Public Performance Right” that lays out in full detail the company’s legal position on the controversial Aereo service. It asserts that the Aereo service violates the copyright laws because it retransmits broadcast content without a license – “a fact that has the major television broadcasters justifiably upset.”
