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Mandated Access: Commensurability And The Right To Say 'No', Wendy J. Gordon, Anne E. Gowen
Mandated Access: Commensurability And The Right To Say 'No', Wendy J. Gordon, Anne E. Gowen
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Here is the problem as Congress saw it: A distributor of television programming (a cable television operator or a distributor of television programming via other media) cannot thrive unless it can supply viewers with top-rated programming. Few customers want to subscribe to a service that lacks NBC's Seinfeld, the latest episodes of General Hospital, or even PBS educational documentaries. Special provisions in the 1976 Copyright Act gave cable operators some liberty to retransmit broadcast programming. However, that Act created no such liberties for programming originating from within cable companies. Because the national market for programming is dominated by …