After the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in ABC v. Aereo Inc., 134 S.Ct. 2498 (2014), that Aereo’s internet retransmission service was “substantially similar” to cable, and therefore violated the Transmit Clause of the Copyright Act, another similar internet retransmission service has succeeded in using the analogy to cable to obtain a ruling that it is eligible for a compulsory license for cable systems adopted as part of the 1976 Copyright Act amendments under 17 U.S.C. § 111.

Originally published in Law360 - June 17, 2016.