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 ·Mediacom
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Skippy25
Re: There is a difference This shows a basic misunderstanding of copyright. Even when performed publicly, copyrighted content is still copyrighted, and the copyright owner still has the rights to any other use of that public performance.
For example, you go to a free concert, record it, and then sell the recording on the Internet without getting permission. That's a copyright violation.
Same thing with OTA broadcasts. Just because you can pick it up OTA and record or retransmit it, doesn't mean it's legal to do so.
You also don't understand the local stations' business model. They get revenue from both retrans rights agreements, and also ads. However they only get the ad revenue if the ratings services can track their shows' ratings. Random, uncontrolled retrans isn't tracked and therefore generates zero incremental ad revenue for the locals. |
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| This has nothing to do with a public performance, you are injecting things that have nothing to do with this into it.
I do understand local stations business model and frankly could care less as they adapt or die. Being this is not a retrans question, your last sentence does not apply. |
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Rekrul
join:2007-04-21
Milford, CT Reviews:
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to MyDogHsFleas
said by MyDogHsFleas:Same thing with OTA broadcasts. Just because you can pick it up OTA and record or retransmit it, doesn't mean it's legal to do so. How far away from your home are you allowed to have your antenna? Can you put it in the corner of your yard, 50 feet from your house?
If you live in a hilly area and own a lot of property, can you mount it on a hill 500 feet from your house?
What if the hill is owned by a neighbor and putting it there is the only way that you can get reception, can you pay them a monthly fee for using their land for your antenna?
What if the antenna was already there, but the neighbors long ago stopped using it and switched to cable, would it be legal to pay them a monthly fee to use their antenna (which they are NOT using)?
At what point does using a dedicated antenna become illegal? |
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 BootesPremium
join:2005-01-28
Palo Alto, CA
3 edits | reply to MyDogHsFleas
Antenna TV is always untrackable, Aereo doesn't change this. Aereo would actually make it much easier to track viewing habits than with current antenna customers.
If Aereo customers don't currently count in the ratings, the answer is to start counting them. Not to act like Aereo is stealing their money by making a service whose users they ignore. It's not Aereo's fault or problem, but Nielsen, the advertisers, and the channels. |
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