The Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado hosts Copyright Policy and the Future of Television on May 13, 2014.
This conference will bring together a series of leading scholars, practitioners, and business executives to discuss the copyright law issues and their business implications. The first panel will address competing interpretations of how the Copyright Act treats “individualized transmission systems”—that is, systems ranging from traditional video on demand to Internet video websites to remote-DVRs, all of which maintain a dedicated/unique transmission for each user. In such systems, how should courts draw the statutory distinction between public and private performances? Is the dedicated transmission enough, as Aereo argues, to make every such transmission “private”? What implications does the ultimate ruling on this issue have for the emergence of cloud computing, an issue that some (such as Cablevision) have highlighted as a core concern?
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