{"id":2097,"date":"2017-03-27T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T22:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2017-03-27T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T22:29:04","slug":"legal-analysis-bringing-together-all-of-todays-copyright-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/03\/27\/legal-analysis-bringing-together-all-of-todays-copyright-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Analysis Bringing Together All of Today&#8217;s Copyright Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/content\/services\/document.php\/253480.pdf\">Here is a link<\/a> to a law review piece (student comment) that synthesizes all of the cases that we talked about in class today&#8211;<em>Sony\u00a0<\/em>(Betamax);\u00a0<em>Napster<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Groskster<\/em>; and\u00a0<em>Aereo<\/em>. It also discusses another pair of cases in depth, the\u00a0<em>Dish Network<\/em> cases.<\/p>\n<p>The student comment explains each of these cases, and ultimately reminds the reader that although many have called the\u00a0<em>Aereo<\/em> decision\u00a0&#8220;the new\u00a0<em>Sony Betamax\u00a0<\/em>case,&#8221; the issue is not so easily distilled. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/content\/services\/document.php\/253480.pdf\">comment<\/a> at 516). Rather: &#8220;In <em>Aereo<\/em>, the main issue is whether the copyright infringement derives from a violation of the right to publicly perform, while in <em>Sony<\/em> or the <em>Dish<\/em> cases, the infringement derived from a violation of the reproduction right.&#8221; (<em>Id.\u00a0<\/em>at 517).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I found this student comment to be informative, and I enjoyed learning about the\u00a0<em>Dish\u00a0<\/em>case as well. (The\u00a0<em>Dish<\/em>\u00a0case(s) related to Dish Network&#8217;s DVR system and its ad-skipping feature of this DVR system.) It walks the reader through our cases in a historical way, tying them all together. The piece asserts that litigation that stifles innovation in order to maintain the status quo will hinder the &#8220;growth and development efforts in the future.&#8221; (<em>Id.\u00a0<\/em>at 520). This seems to comport with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2014\/06\/abc_v_aereo_ruling_the_supreme_court_s_terrible_technological_analogies.html\">Professor McKenna&#8217;s general theory<\/a> that decisions such as\u00a0<em>Aereo<\/em> can have far-reaching impacts on the development of better technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to a law review piece (student comment) that synthesizes all of the cases that we talked about in class today&#8211;Sony\u00a0(Betamax);\u00a0Napster and\u00a0Groskster; and\u00a0Aereo. It also discusses another pair of cases in depth, the\u00a0Dish Network cases. The student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/03\/27\/legal-analysis-bringing-together-all-of-todays-copyright-cases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}