Supreme Court lets Cablevision DVR decision stand
FROM B&C: CNN, some studios had wanted Court to overturn appeals on copyright ruling
By John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable -- Video Business, 6/29/2009
JUNE 29 | FROM B&C: The Supreme Court Monday declined to review the challenge by CNN and some major studios to Cablevision's use of a remote DVR service.
The decision paves the way for Cablevision to deploy the service later this summer, according to the company.
The Solicitor General had recommended the court not take the case.
‘We are very pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a challenge to Cablevision's Remote Digital Recording Service," said Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn. "From a common-sense point of view, the lower court, and the U.S. Solicitor General, were correct in their interpretation of the copyright law that a recording is a recording, whether done on a set-top box or at the cable head-end, as Cablevision’s proposed service allows."
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