Judge Enjoins Ivi TV From Streaming Station Signals

[The Straight Story]

Judge Enjoins Ivi TV From Streaming Station Signals
Says ivi was "extraordinarily unlikely" to be deemed a cable system under Copyright law


A U.S. District Court Judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking ivi TV from streaming TV station signals without consent of retrans payments.

Major broadcast groups had filed for the injunction, saying ivi was infringing on their copyrights and causing irreparable harm.

Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald concluded in the order, released Tuesday, that ivi was "extraordinarily unlikely" to be deemed a cable system under Copyright law, and that it was posing that harm to broadcasters' business.

"The public interest will not be disserved by an injunction," the judge ruled, while also finding that the plaintiffs--broadcasters--had showed they were likely to win on the merits of their copyright claim.

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