Supreme Court Soon to Consider Whether to Take Aereo Case

Could decide future of broadcast TV model

The Supreme Court may decide Jan. 10 whether to review broadcasters' beef against Aereo. The court will announce soon thereafter if it will hear the case in 2014.

Broadcasters, including TV owners Disney, CBS, NBCUniversal, Fox, Univision, Public Broadcasting Service, and Tribune, petitioned the Supreme Court to review their copyright infringement case against Aereo in October. 

Since Aereo launched nearly two years ago offering consumers streams of local broadcast signals over the Internet for about $8 a month, broadcasters have been up in arms, accusing the service of copyright infringement.

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