American Broadcasting Cos, Inc. V. Aereo Case Summary

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On June 25, 2014, the US Supreme Court issued their decision in the case of American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. v. Aereo. This case dealt with the copyright of the form that provided broadcast television programming to consumers. Aereo allows the subscriber to chose the program through their website. Aero creates a personal copy for each subscriber by converting the broadcast signal into internet-transmittable data and storing it under specific folders for each subscriber. Aereo emphasizes that the data that the system streams to each subscribers are the data from his or her own personal copy, made from the broadcast signals received by the subscriber’s own personal antenna. Though multiple subscribers may wish to watch the same program at the

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