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The Tangled Web: Cross-Border Conflicts Of Copyright Law In The Age Of Internet Sharing, Elisabeth Fiordalisi
The Tangled Web: Cross-Border Conflicts Of Copyright Law In The Age Of Internet Sharing, Elisabeth Fiordalisi
Loyola University Chicago International Law Review
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Weighing Down The Cloud: The Public Performance Right And The Internet After Aereo, Samuel J. Dykstra
Weighing Down The Cloud: The Public Performance Right And The Internet After Aereo, Samuel J. Dykstra
Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
In American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc., the Supreme Court concluded that Aereo’s streaming of broadcast television programs over the Internet to its subscribers was an infringing public performance under the Copyright Act of 1976 (“Copyright Act”). The Court interpreted the “Transmit Clause” of the Copyright Act to mean that when determining whether a performance created by a transmission is to “the public” the relevant audience is not that of a particular transmission, but of the work being transmitted. Thus, it did not matter that Aereo operated by creating unique copies and via separate transmissions available to only one …