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New Copyright Issues With Video-Streaming Apps

June 3, 2015

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Increasingly popular apps that allow people to live stream virtually whatever they can see have created some copyright issues, at live sporting events among other venues. This post from Primary Opinion compiles a number of interesting takes on the subject. One commentator notes that if filming isn’t prohibited under the terms of the admission ticket, then copyright is unlikely to protect the event from video posting. Another points out that if somebody decides to stream, say, a very pricey championship fight, there may be a remedy, but it’s not in copyright law, which protects only against “rebroadcast.” One commentator notes that, for service providers, a knotty question will arise regarding whether a 2010 precedent that said they were insulated from infringement claims, under certain conditions, by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act does or does not protect them here.

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