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Dulin's Books · 05-25-2012, 04:59 PM

yes. the entire broadcast is protected by copyright. they have for many years made this very noticeable announcements prior to sports programs and others

"this programming is the property of XXXXXX. the broadcast– either in part or in its entirety -- may not be retransmitted, reproduced or rebroadcast without the expressed consent of blah blah blah"

they are going to argue that the hopper is doing the job of rebroadcasting the program without the consent of the studio/owner etc

here is some legal opinion

http://chart.copyrightdata.com/c15B.html

while in the most cases it may be precedent that cable and satellite providers arent infringing re-broadcasts altering the broadcast will not pass the legal test.

05-25-2012, 04:59 PM	#7
Dulin's Books Wizard Posts: 2,806 Karma: 13500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Portland, OR Device: Boox PB360 etc etc etc	yes. the entire broadcast is protected by copyright. they have for many years made this very noticeable announcements prior to sports programs and others "this programming is the property of XXXXXX. the broadcast– either in part or in its entirety -- may not be retransmitted, reproduced or rebroadcast without the expressed consent of blah blah blah" they are going to argue that the hopper is doing the job of rebroadcasting the program without the consent of the studio/owner etc here is some legal opinion http://chart.copyrightdata.com/c15B.html while in the most cases it may be precedent that cable and satellite providers arent infringing re-broadcasts altering the broadcast will not pass the legal test.