Author: Jeffrey Antonelli

Dallas Buyers Club Sues Nearly 800 Nationwide

Dallas Buyers Club LLC, the copyright owner of the Oscar winning motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Jared Leto,  begun an apparent nationwide litigation campaign in February 2014 suing internet users it alleges illegally downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club using BitTorrent or similar peer-to-peer file-sharing programs. Last week, on April 26 2014,

Aereo: Will SCOTUS Clear the Way for Unlicensed Retransmission?

The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari for American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al v. Aereo, Inc. on January 10, 2014. This case has the potential to change the landscape of broadcasting, transmission and retransmission/recording and has garnered a great deal of attention. First, we provide some short, pertinent background on the Betamax and Cablevisions cases