Aereo Update: And the Question is . . . [telecom]

By Harry Cole, CommLawBlog, January 26, 2014

| The Supremes opt to use the broadcasters' formulation of the | question to be resolved by the Court. | | OK, all you Supreme Court tea leaf readers, you've got another leaf | to read in the Aereo case. According to the Supreme Court's | website, the "question presented" that the Court has decided to use | as the focus for briefing in that case is this: | | "A copyright holder possesses the exclusive right "to perform

| Copyright Act of 1976, Congress defined the phrase "[t]o | perform ... 'publicly'" to include, among other things, "o | transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of | the work ... to the public, by means of any device or process, | whether the members of the public capable of receiving the | performance or display receive it in the same place or in | separate places and at the same time or at different times."

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