Aereo and Beyond When: June 18, 2014 at 6:00pm - 6:00pm EDT - This event has passed Fellow Copyright Fans – The U.S. Supreme Court currently is considering its most significant copyright case since Grokster, perhaps since Campbell (2 Live Crew) or Sony (Betamax). Existing business and legal models for television are under assault. Consumers want to be able to see their content when, where and how they want (instead of being forced to use closed conventional cable or satellite content delivery systems). A disrupting technology — Aereo’s service that makes “over-the-air” television available via mobile and other internet-connected devices — is the subject of the arguments the U.S. Supreme Court heard on April 22 in the American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. copyright litigation. The Court’s decision will have significant effects not just on television, but also cloud computing and internet streaming. Join the Copyright Society of the USA, Pacific Northwest Chapter on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, at 6:00 p.m., at the Davis Wright Tremaine conference room at 1201 Third Ave., Seattle (floor 22), as a panel led by Zahr Said (University of Washington Law School) and including Sean O’Connor (University of Washington Law School), Cyrus Christenson (Real Networks), Benjamin Glatstein (Microsoft) and Steve Tapia (Seattle University Law School) discuss the issues and arguments presented to the Court in the Aereo case. Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of host Davis Wright Tremaine. Please RSVP to Starla.Trotter@KLGates.com, or register via the link at the Copyright Society website: http://www.csusa.org. The charge for this event is $20.00, payable at the door or to the Copyright Society via registration on this webpage; however, there is no charge for this event for Copyright Society members or law students. We will be applying for 1.5 CLE credits. To prepare for this event, you might review some of the following: 1. Professor JaneGinsburg’s trenchant criticism of the Second Circuit decision 2. The transcript ofthe April 22 oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court 3. The merit briefs andamicus briefs – look for your favorite amici(I recommend the first amicus brief listed, submitted by the AIPLA.) 4. The recording of the April 22 oral argument A shout-out to our host for the evening, Eric Stahl at Davis Wright Tremaine, who co-authored the recently released and widely praised Copyright Remedies: A Litigator’s Guide to Damages and Other Relief, published by the American Bar Association.* CLE Credit Details We will be applying for 1.5 CLE credits. This event has passed
