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AMERICAN BROADCASTING v. AEREO, INC.

No. 13-461.

134 S.Ct. 2498 (2014)

189 L.Ed.2d 476

AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. AEREO, INC., fka Bamboom Labs, Inc.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 25, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Clement, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Malcolm Stewart for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioners.

David C. Frederick, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Paul M. Smith, Matthew E. Price, Jenner & Block LLP, Paul D. Clement, Counsel of Record, Erin E. Murphy, Bancroft PLLC, Washington, DC, Richard L. Stone, Amy M. Gallegos, Jenner & Block LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Bruce P. Keller, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioners.

Brenda M. Cotter, General Counsel, Daniel Brown, Deputy General Counsel, Aereo, Inc., Boston, MA, David C. Frederick, Counsel of Record, Aaron M. Panner, Brendan J. Crimmins, Caitlin S. Hall, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, R. David Hosp, Mark S. Puzella, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, MA, Seth D. Greenstein, Constantine Cannon LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Justice BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Copyright Act of 1976 gives a copyright owner the "exclusive righ[t]" to "perform the copyrighted work publicly." 17 U.S.C. § 106(4). The Act's Transmit Clause defines that exclusive right as including the right to

"transmit or otherwise communicate a performance ... of the [copyrighted] work ... to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving...

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