Aereo is tackling the broadcasters’ challenge to its technology head-on, asking the Supreme Court to take a copyright case that will decide the future of how we watch TV. Read more at GigaOM »
Sports leagues filed a petition in support of broadcasters’ request to shut down Aereo at the Supreme Court. The filing shows how Aereo has become a high-stakes threat, and provides a window into the evolving economics of digital TV. Read more at GigaOM »
Tech companies have been resolving privacy lawsuits by paying a sum of money to class action lawyers and “charities.” The Supreme Court hinted on Monday it is getting impatient with the practice. Read more at GigaOM »
Many links cited by influential science journals and the Supreme Court are broken – the result is a growing memory hole in the places where scholars expect to find an authoritative source of knowledge. The good news is a solution is at hand. Read more at GigaOM »
Broadcasters, alarmed by Aereo’s technology that relays their TV signals, want to rush the issue to the Supreme Court. Their petition is likely premature. Read more at GigaOM »
Viewers can stream over-the-air TV services like Aereo in New York but not California. The case could go to the Supreme Court – but not until 2015 or later, leaving consumers ample time to get to know the new service. Read more at GigaOM »
The law about when cops can search your phone is a cluster of confusion. But now the issue is teed up for the Supreme Court to define the privacy rights surrounding the personal computers in our pockets. Read more at GigaOM »
The Supreme Court sided with a student textbook seller agains the publisher John Wiley in a major dispute over who can resell copyrighted works. Read more »
The Supreme Court chose to keep the country in suspense today over its momentous health care ruling, and instead issued a decision confirming that the FCC was wrong to sanction Fox over brief f-bombs by Cher and Nicole Richie. Read more »
Is it legal to buy books or watches overseas and then ship them back to America to sell at a profit? For a long time, the law has been unclear. Now, the Supreme Court is set to weigh in. Read more »
GPS is great if you’re hiking or looking for a restaurant on your iPhone. But how you do feel about letting the police place the tracking te… Read more »
While patent law has hogged the headlines in the last year, copyright law is making a splash this week with two cases at the Supreme Court a… Read more »
The Supreme Court ruled today that a California law that would have banned the sale of violent video games to minors is unconstitutional, be… Read more »
The whole tech sector was cheering on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in this case, which could have had a major impact on the function of the U.S. p… Read more »
A variety of bills are being debated in Washington now that would create some new rules for how to handle data and privacy in the digital ag… Read more »
Copyrights do end — although these days, they’re so long (95 years for most works) that you’d scarcely know it. Once a work does fall into… Read more »
A conservative majority of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts held last year that a corporation has similar free-speech righ… Read more »
A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court granted extraordinary “free speech” rights to corporations, when it ruled (in the Citizens United v. Fede… Read more »
The Supreme Court has announced it will hear Sorrell v. IMS Health, a case relating to the sale of health data. Though not obvious at first… Read more »
Record labels finally will have to face an antitrust lawsuit that dates back to the early days of digital music, thanks to a Supreme Court o… Read more »
