Third Circuit rules on webcasting

Where plaintiffs claimed that the exclusion from copyright protection for "nonsubscription broadcast transmissions" of recorded music is unambiguously intended to apply to simultaneous webcasting of their radio broadcast signal, judgment in favor of defendants is affirmed where the Copyright Office's interpretation of section 114(d)(1)(A) was persuasive and properly accorded deference. BONNEVILLE INT'L CORP. v. PETERS, No. 01-3720 (3d Cir. 2003) [pdf]

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