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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Cablevision Case: Video Providers, Consumers and Innovation all Win
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We just got word that the Supreme Court has declined to review the Cablevision remote DVR case. This is the case where Hollywood and some cable networks sued Cablevision for providing a TiVo-like service where the copy of the recorded program resides on the cable operator’s servers rather than on a hard drive in the home. The studios claimed that both the buffer copies and the copies residing on Cablevision’s servers were a violation of its right to reproduce the program, and that the recordings sent to the customer were a violation of its public performance right. A lower court in New York City sided with Hollywood, but the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision, ruling that the remote DVR service did not violate Hollywood’s copyrights.
The Court’s decision not to take the case is a huge victory for consumers and all video service providers, not just cable.
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