The copyright issues involving the Internet are legion and complicated, but one thing is pretty clear: If Internet companies are allowed to retransmit local broadcast signals without permission, as one Canadian Internet company is doing with some Buffalo TV stations, then the free, over-the-air broadcasting system is in big trouble.
The whole notion of market exclusivity for programming goes out the window when anyone, anywhere can get shows virtually identical to those on his/her local broadcast station. The government spent two years hacking through the thorns of these issues before coming up with a scheme to permit satellite TV operators to carry local TV signals. …
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