{"id":826,"date":"2014-06-26T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=826"},"modified":"2014-06-26T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:56:38","slug":"copyright-rights-trump-new-tv-streaming-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2014\/06\/26\/copyright-rights-trump-new-tv-streaming-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright protections trump new TV-streaming technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is good news, from my publisher’s point of view. From The Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Canadian content producers are breathing a sigh of relief after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that online streaming service Aereo Inc. violates U.S. copyright laws, dealing a devastating blow to the two-year-old startup. …<\/span><\/p>\n

The ruling is welcome news to an array of concerned Canadian groups that jointly opposed Aereo\u2019s model in an amicus brief. Organizations including the Canadian Media Production Association, actors\u2019 union ACTRA, and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), argued to the court that Aereo was exploiting a loophole in U.S. copyright law to avoid paying royalties.<\/p>\n

\u201cAereo had tried to game the copyright system,\u201d said Barry Sookman, a partner at McCarthy T\u00e9trault LLP who helped draft the brief. \u201cIt tried to find a loophole and to basically engineer its way around the Copyright Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concern for Canadian film, TV and music creators was not that a company such as Aereo would move north: The groups behind the brief argued that Canada\u2019s legal precedents would make an expansion here difficult since they spell out more clearly how to define new broadcasting platforms. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a 2012 case that, where new technologies perform the same activity, \u201cthere is no justification for distinguishing between the two for copyright purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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