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Simultaneous Rediffusion By Cable Television Operators In Canada And The Problems Of Nonpayment Of Copyright Royalties, Larry Seidenberg
Simultaneous Rediffusion By Cable Television Operators In Canada And The Problems Of Nonpayment Of Copyright Royalties, Larry Seidenberg
Penn State International Law Review
This Article surveys a controversial issue involving both Canadian and United States copyright interest groups. Simultaneous rediffusion involves the unauthorized reception and retransmission or rediffusion of copyrighted United States broadcast programming by foreign cable television systems. The issue has important ramifications for a future revision of the copyright by the Canadian Parliament as indicated in the Revision of Copyright Subcommittee Report of October 1985 and is useful to an examination of United States copyright principles and the international role of the United States in copyright.
This author's conclusion is that compulsory license for simultaneous rediffusion of broadcast signals is a …