Cablevision will continue its fight to bring remote-storage DVRs to the masses.
The cabler is set today to appeal last month's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin that declared RS-DVRs, sometimes referred to as network DVRs, off-limits because they infringed on the copyrights of studios.
Chin, siding with such plaintiffs as Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom and the Walt Disney Co., ruled that because an RS-DVR calls for Cablevision to store programming on its servers, the concept is too similar to VOD, minus profits due the content owners.
Conventional DVRs, popularized by TiVo, store content not on massive servers controlled by cable TV companies but on set-top boxes residing in users' homes.
But an RS-DVR, Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge argued Monday, should be permissible under copyright law because, like a regular DVR, they merely enable "consumers to exercise their well-established rights to time-shift television programming."
Rutledge said Cablevision's appeal will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and that plans are to seek expedited review of its appeal.
The cabler is set today to appeal last month's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin that declared RS-DVRs, sometimes referred to as network DVRs, off-limits because they infringed on the copyrights of studios.
Chin, siding with such plaintiffs as Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom and the Walt Disney Co., ruled that because an RS-DVR calls for Cablevision to store programming on its servers, the concept is too similar to VOD, minus profits due the content owners.
Conventional DVRs, popularized by TiVo, store content not on massive servers controlled by cable TV companies but on set-top boxes residing in users' homes.
But an RS-DVR, Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge argued Monday, should be permissible under copyright law because, like a regular DVR, they merely enable "consumers to exercise their well-established rights to time-shift television programming."
Rutledge said Cablevision's appeal will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and that plans are to seek expedited review of its appeal.
- 4/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A federal judge in New York has sided with Hollywood in its next-generation DVR fight with Cablevision.
Cablevision said it is considering an appeal of the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin, who decided last week that the proposed DVRs would have infringed on studios' content copyrights by storing recorded programming remotely on the company's computer servers.
Cablevision aims to do away with expensive set-top boxes in the homes of its DVR subscribers. In theory, the service also would allow customers to watch TV shows on-demand, even if they hadn't preprogramd their DVRs to watch the shows.
Hollywood studios and networks owned by Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom and the Walt Disney Co. sued the New York-based cable operator in May over the so-called remote storage DVR, or RS-DVR, proposal. Cablevision was the lead proponent of such systems, but other cable operators also support the concept.
Networks argued that an RS-DVR was not a DVR at all but an unauthorized VOD service that would allow Cablevision to reap the rewards without sharing profits with content rightsholders.
Cablevision said it is considering an appeal of the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin, who decided last week that the proposed DVRs would have infringed on studios' content copyrights by storing recorded programming remotely on the company's computer servers.
Cablevision aims to do away with expensive set-top boxes in the homes of its DVR subscribers. In theory, the service also would allow customers to watch TV shows on-demand, even if they hadn't preprogramd their DVRs to watch the shows.
Hollywood studios and networks owned by Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom and the Walt Disney Co. sued the New York-based cable operator in May over the so-called remote storage DVR, or RS-DVR, proposal. Cablevision was the lead proponent of such systems, but other cable operators also support the concept.
Networks argued that an RS-DVR was not a DVR at all but an unauthorized VOD service that would allow Cablevision to reap the rewards without sharing profits with content rightsholders.
- 3/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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