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Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
Supreme Court Ends Aereo’s Technology-Driven Attempt to Disrupt the Traditional Network TV Model
In the end Aereo’s dime-sized antennas and subscriber-specific copies of television broadcasts – its “Rube Goldberg” attempt to find a loophole that would allow it to stream TV over the Internet – were not enough to win over a majority of the Supreme Court. On June 25, 2014, the Supreme Court held that Aereo’s streaming service violated the exclusive right of copyright owners to “publicly perform” their works. Aereo had used diabolically clever technology (or so the broadcasters claimed) in...
Aereo and the Cloud Before the Supreme Court
This is a catch-up post on oral argument in ABC v. Aereo, which was held on April 22, 2014. The Supreme Court's 2013-2014 term is almost over, and we can expect to receive the Court's decision in Aereo on June 23rd or 30th. A great deal has been written about whether Aereo's TV -to-Internet service violates the TV networks' public performance right under the transmit clause of the Copyright Act. By comparison, less has been written about the implications of the case for "cloud computing" and...
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Google Book’s Little Sibling (HathiTrust) OK’d by Second Circuit Under Fair Use
While The Author's Guild copyright suit against Google Books has received most of the attention on the copyright law front, its smaller sibling - the Author's copyright suit against HathiTrust - has been proceeding on a parallel track. HathiTrust is a consortium of more than 70 institutions working with Google to digitize the books in their libraries, but a smaller number of books than Google Books (only ten million), and for academic use (including an accommodation for disabled viewers),...
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