The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to Cablevision’s remote ...
The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to Cablevision’s remote DVR, the high court said Monday after considering Cable News Network et al. v. CSC Holdings. That decision was expected because the U.S. solicitor general asked the court not…
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to take the case (WID June 1 p5). The appeals court ruling that blessed the service as noninfringing threw a wrench in the Copyright Office’s proceeding on Copyright Act Section 115, forcing it to sidestep the issue of whether so-called buffer copies count as “digital phonorecord deliveries” (WID Nov 10 p2). Cablevision will start using the technology later this summer to let subscribers pause live TV, the company said. The decision gives firms such as Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable more certainty they can sell remote DVR service “without legal risk,” wrote analyst Paul Gallant of the Washington Research Group. Losers in the case are content companies including CBS, Disney, News Corp., Viacom and Time Warner Inc., he added. The case wasn’t participated in by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, the court said, without saying why.