Book Chapter
Asking the Right Questions in Copyright Cases: Lessons from Aereo and its International Brethren
Rebecca Giblin, Janes Ginsburg
Intellectual Property Perspectives on the Regulation of New Technologies | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | Published : 2018
Abstract
When Aereo began offering subscribers online access to broadcast TV in 2012, the peculiarities of its technical design attracted immediate attention. It set up arrays of thousands of thumbnail-sized antennae in its Brooklyn warehouse, and based its system around unique copies which were made regardless of whether a subscriber requested to ‘watch’ a broadcast (for near-live viewing) or to ‘record’ it (for future consumption).