The National Press club as Outgoing National Transportation Safety board chair deborah herzman gives her farewell address. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Host and on april 22nd the Supreme Court will hear the case of American Broadcasting Companies etal v. Aereo. The networks are claiming that aereo is transmitting their broadcasts without compensation and without permission. Here to discuss that case and some of the technology surrounding this company is chet kanojia, ceo and founder of aereo. Mr. Kanojia, what is your strongest argument to the Supreme Court justices that you are not stealing broadcast signals . Guest and great start to the questions. I think all of our arguments are extremely strong. So if you start with the basics which is everybody acknowledges that consumers have the right to an antenna, everybody acknowledges a consumer has a right to make a recording of fre
Back then eight vcr, now a dvr. The debate seems to be about the where where the equipment is located. Nobody has appeal the finding of facts, that each consumer controls their own antenna. The antenna is dead until the consumer lockin and instructs the antenna to tune to a particular frequency. Each consumer makes their own copy, unique, distinct, never mingled with anyone elses, and transmits it for themselves. None of the facts have been appealed or disputed ever. So it comes down to we as a country and a society a system, do we permit this idea of private conduct, which the courts have consistently found, yes, we do. And congress has been encouraging the idea of consumption of local broadcast television. A new way ofhat capturing the signal by an individual should somehow be prohibited is absolutely acorrect policy, and devastating blow to innovation in the next step of our industry, which is movement of all of these technologies away from the consumers home into the cloud. These a
Donotresuscitate order and although the worker was following policy, this death opens up a legal can of worms. Lawsuits are the least of their problems. Theyre looking at lawsuits that could put them out of business. Every person in the facility and the owner of the facility could be looking at license revocation from the state and they could be criminally prosecuted on a theory of homicide. Reporter alyssa harrington, kpix5. So the big question, why was this against policy . Well, bayless, the elderly woman in this case was part of the independent facility at glenwood gardens. Its almost like an apartment complex for seniors and is separate from the skilled and assisted nursing facilities there and that independent section does not offer medical help. The executive director of the facility said in a statement that its Standard Practice for workers to immediately call for emergency help and to wait with the patient until that help arrives. The executive director also promised a thoroug
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