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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedHollywood pauses on ReplayTV.(Brief Article)
Video Business, November, 2001 by Donahue, Ann
Hollywood heavyweights including Disney, Viacom and NBC have filed a joint lawsuit against digital recording service Replay TV and its parent company SonicBlue Inc. The suit is over new Replay features that allow TV programs to be e-mailed between users and commercials to be automatically deleted during playback.
The companies, including ABC, Showtime, Paramount Pictures, UPN and CBS--all part of media conglomerates that are invested in Replay--seek to enjoin Replay and SonicBlue from selling two new devices, the Replay TV 4000 and SonicBlue's DDV 2120 dual-deck VCR. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claims the devices violate the Copyright Act, the Communications Act and California law. The...
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