LOCAST Receives Unfavorable Court Rulling
Locast TV was given an unfavorable court ruling today for future re-broadcast: Locast Nation In the big media companies' lawsuit against Locast, the court just issued a disappointing ruling. We ...
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valhalla360 wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:bgum wrote:
If you are using what they paid to produce then you should pay them for that use.
How much should we pay for over the air reception? The original concept was that advertising revenue paid the expenses and community antenna/cable systems expanded the reach of that advertising.
The difference is they CHOOSE to provide free over the air transmission.
Once you start transmitting via other methods, those costs have to be covered along with copyright payments up and down the production line.
TV/radio stations don't CHOOSE to provide free OTA transmission, it's a requirement of their licenses to use the public airways. And non-profit signal translators have been around for many years. What Locast is doing differently from other translators is in how they "rebroadcast" the OTA signals via the Internet to reach a larger audience within the stations DMA.
