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- Locast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the nonprofit service shortly after it launched.
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Sep 2, 2021 · Sept. 2, 2021. Locast, a nonprofit streaming service that piped local broadcast signals over the internet, is shutting down after a federal judge ruled against the organization in a rare case...
Sep 2, 2021 · By Alex Weprin, Eriq Gardner. September 2, 2021 7:37am. AFP/AFP via Getty Images. The streaming TV app Locast is shutting down for now, after losing a critical court ruling in a case brought by...
Sep 2, 2021 · Locast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the...
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Sep 16, 2021 · Locast was ordered to shut down its online TV service forever in a permanent injunction issued yesterday by a federal judge. The order came two weeks after the judge gave major broadcast networks...
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Locast is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which today said that the "court interpreted the law in an artificially narrow way. Congress wrote copyright's nonprofit retransmission exception to make sure that every American has access to their local broadcast stations, and expanding access is exactly what Locast does. This rul...
The free version of Locast's service interrupts programming every 15 minutes "with a fifteen-second video requesting donations," Stanton noted. Users can pay $5 a monthto eliminate those donation appeals or "request that the service stop displaying the donation requests based on their financial circumstances." Locast also gets donations from pay-TV...
Locast launched in 2018 and gradually expanded to 36 geographic markets containing 55 percent of the US population. That includes New York City, Los Angeles, the District of Columbia, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Seattle, and San Francisco. Locast argued that its service qualifies for the co...
Locast's fight is not over, according to a statement from one of the lawyers on its legal team. "Our client is in the process of evaluating the decision and formulating next steps," said R. David Hosp, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. "Locast provides a valuable service to its over 3 million users who are otherwise unable to access the ...
Sep 1, 2021 · Locast has lost the courtroom skirmish started by CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox, which said that the company was violating their copyright. Deadline reports that the quartet’s request for summary ...
Sep 1, 2021 · September 1, 2021. In a blow to millions of people who rely on local television broadcasts, a federal court ruled yesterday that the nonprofit TV-streaming service Locast is not protected by an exception to copyright created by Congress to ensure that every American has access to their local stations.
