Alan R. Friedman was mentioned in the article "Aereo's
Dead, But the Cloud Lives on." The full article is available
in the June 25, 2014 issue of Law360, but a synopsis is
provided below.
Although the U.S. Supreme Court's decision issued on June
25, 2014 against Aereo Inc. likely spells the end for the streaming
service, the Court was careful to restrict the scope of its Opinion
in order to limit its impact on new technologies not at issue in
the lawsuit.
All told, the opinion handed down Wednesday included 'no
fewer than five ways' in which it could be distinguished if
future litigants try to use it to argue that cloud technologies
infringe copyright, said Alan R. Friedman.
He continues on to comment that "the court was explicit in
limiting the scope of its decision to avoid interfering with the
application of the Copyright Act to new technologies not before the
court."
