The Video Wars: Where Is It Now? Where Should It End?

Norman Leventhal is a Partner in our Washington D.C. office

Maybe there were a handful of media observers who, late in 2012, thought the recent on-line threats to the traditional broadcast television model would be settled quickly; they would be wrong. In the last six months, we have reported on numerous developments among the players, in the courts, and in the halls of Congress concerning the upstart Internet distributors of network television programs (principally, Aereo and Aereokiller). See previous blogs: January 18,  April 15 and May 2.

As of this week, the battle continues to rage on in multiple forums:

• An appeal by broadcast companies to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit en banc, asking the full court to overturn the panel's refusal to enjoin the further deployment and operation of Aereo is pending;