Spanski Enters., Inc. v. Telewizja Polska, S.A., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, March 2, 2018

The Carsey-Werner Co., LLC v. British Broadcasting Corp., US District Court for the Central District of California, February 23, 2018

These two decisions addressed slightly different versions of the same issue: The circumstances under which programming streamed from a server outside the US can violate US copyrights covering the programs’ content. The decisions may be in some tension with one another, and are the subject of a blog post prepared by lawyers in our Intellectual Property group, from April 26, 2018: A Tale Of Two Geoblocks: 2018's Cases On Extraterritorial Broadcasts Lead To Differing Results.