Friday round-up
on Apr 18, 2014 at 8:20 am
Coverage of the Court focuses on next week’s oral arguments in American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo, in which the Court will consider whether Aereo’s streaming of broadcast television programs over the Internet violates federal copyright laws. Robert Levine previews the case for Bloomberg Businessweek, while in an op-ed for The Daily Caller, Gary Shapiro urges the Court to “side with Aereo.” In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, Nat Worden contends that, if Aereo “wins, the entire media and entertainment industry could be transformed.”
In other Court-related news, last night Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a joint appearance at the National Press Club, where they both suggested that the Court would eventually weigh in on the legality of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities. Lawrence Hurley reports on the event for Reuters.
