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Aereo And Filmon: Technology’S Latest Copyright War And Why Aereo Should Survive, Krista Consiglio

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Aereo: Cutting The Cord Or Splitting The Circuit?, Julie Borna

CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Technology Policy (1993-2015)

No abstract provided.

The Limits Of The Supreme Court’S Technological Analogies, Mark Mckenna

Mark P. McKenna

Op-ed The Limits of the Supreme Court’s Technological Analogies published on Slate.com on June 26.

Mark Mckenna Quoted Forbes Article Aereo Loses Big As Supreme Court Calls It Equivalent To Cable Tv On June 25., Mark Mckenna

Mark P. McKenna

Mark McKenna quoted in Forbes article Aereo Loses Big As Supreme Court Calls It Equivalent To Cable TV on June 25. Mark McKenna of Notre Dame Law School wasn’t so sure, saying the decision might threaten cloud services that allow users to transmit copies of protected content to themselves. “I think Breyer meant here to distinguish Dropbox, where I might store copies I legitimately acquired, but I don’t think it’s much comfort since I only owned the first copy and Dropbox doesn’t really know if I owned it or not,” McKenna told me, via e-mail. “That’s the cloud companies’ concern …

Mark Mckenna Quoted In Cbs News Article Supreme Court Deals Severe Blow To Aereo On June 25., Mark Mckenna

Mark P. McKenna

Mark McKenna quoted in CBS News article Supreme Court deals severe blow to Aereo on June 25.

"The Supreme Court today found that Aereo is similar to cable companies and publicly performs copyrighted works when it re-transmits over-the-air signals to its customers," said University of Notre Dame law professor Mark McKenna.

The Territoriality Referendum, Marketa Trimble

Scholarly Works

Many Internet users have encountered geoblocking tools – tools that prevent users from accessing certain content on the Internet based on the location from which the users are connecting to the Internet. Because at least some users want to access such content, they turn to tools that enable them to evade geoblocking, to appear on the Internet as if they were located in another location, and to access the content that is available in this other location. So far these activities appear to be under the radar of intellectual property (“IP”) owners, perhaps because geoblocking evasion by users for the …

On Aereo And "Avoision", Rebecca Giblin, Jane C. Ginsburg

Faculty Scholarship

Avoision describes conduct which seeks to exploit 'the differences between a law's goals and its self-defined limits' – a phenomenon particularly apparent in tax law. This short paper explains how the technology company Aereo utilised avoision strategies in an attempt to design its way out of liability under US copyright law. The authors argue that existing formulations encourage such strategies by applying differently depending on how the transaction is structured, resulting in a wasteful devotion of resources to hyper-technical compliance with the letter rather than meaning and purpose of the law.?