Locast, the service launched in 2018 that enables viewers to access free internet streams of local TV stations’ signals, has filed a counter-suit against ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, alleging ̶…
In the Locast counter-claim, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in New York, the company calls the broadcasters’ claims “objectively baseless” and says they “constitute an unlawful sham.”, a Barry Diller-backed startup that was beaming TV signals directly to computers and claiming fair use. That threat went by the boards in 2014 after the Supreme Court found it was violating copyright laws. The service subsequently shuttered.
“Plaintiffs have colluded to limit the reasonable public access to the over-the-air signals that they are statutorily required to make available for free,” the counter-suit asserts, “and have opted instead to use their copyrights improperly to construct and protect a pay-TV model that forces consumers to forgo over-the-air programming or to pay cable, satellite, and online providers for access to programming that was intended to be free.
According to the complaint, Google warned Locast that it faced “punishment” by the big four broadcast networks if its YouTube TV
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