Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting

Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting
Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 7, 1974; Decided March 4, 1974
Full case name	Teleprompter Corp. et al. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., et al.
Citations	415 U.S. 394 (more) 94 S. Ct. 1129; 39 L. Ed. 2d 415; 181 U.S.P.Q. 65
Case history
Prior	Columbia Broad. Sys., Inc. v. Teleprompter Corp., 476 F.2d 338 (2d Cir. 1973); cert. granted, 414 U.S. 817 (1973)
Holding
	Receiving a television broadcast from a "distant" source does not constitute a "performance".
Court membership
	Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr.; Potter Stewart · Byron White; Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun; Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by Brennan, White, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist
Concur/dissent	Blackmun
Dissent	Douglas, joined by Burger

Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting, 415 U.S. 394 (1974), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that receiving a television broadcast from a "distant" source does not constitute a "performance".[1]

References

Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting, 415 U.S. 394 (1974).

External links

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[1] Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting, 415 U.S. 394 (1974).