(United States Ninth Circuit) - In a suit brought by a group of broadcast stations and copyright holders against an entity that operates a service that uses antennas to capture over-the-air broadcast programming,much of it copyrighted, and then uses the Internet to retransmit such programming to paying subscribers, or all without the consent or authorization of the copyright holders,the district court's partial summary judgment in favor of defendants is reversed where a service that captures copyrighted works broadcast over the air, and then retransmits them to paying subscribers over the Internet without the consent of the copyright holders, and is not a 'cable system' eligible for a compulsory license under the Copyright Act.
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