Monday, February 3, 2014

The Interesting Case of Aereo


I'm going to talk about Aereo in today's discussion of broadcast and cable regulations. Aereo is an innovative and disruptive company that exploits a loophole in copyright broadcast law to retransmit network programming to users via their personal computers. Here is a great article (via NYT) summarizing the company, the legal issues involved and what's at stake. 

If you have a chance, give the article a look before class. How do you think the court should decide?