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Intellectual Property

Sep. 25, 2013

What the 9th Circuit thinks of commercial-skipping enablers

Dish Network's customers -- not Dish -- are the ones that push the record button on its commercial skipping feature. By David B. Sandelands


By David B. Sandelands


In Fox Broadcasting v. Dish Network, 2013 DJDAR 9650 (July 24, 2013), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court's denial of Fox Broadcasting's request for a preliminary injunction against Dish Network. The heart of the dispute between Fox and Dish arose from Dish's provision of equipment and services that allow Dish's subscribers to record and later view Fox's primetime programming while ski...

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