De-FUD: Supreme Court Serves Up Nothing June 29, 2009
Wired once again makes our De-FUD page. This time they are saying that the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari in the CSC Holdings case was the Supreme Court “Serv[ing] Up Remote-Recording Victory.”
It really isn’t. Generally, the Supreme Court has control over which cases it decides and which it doesn’t. (There are a few minor exceptions, where the Supreme Court has to hear a case.) The court not deciding to hear this case is by no means a victory for remote recording. The Supreme Court has a series of rules it consults when determining to take a case. One of which is whether or not courts are divided on a certain issue. Since this is the first time this remote recording issue has come up, it’s not surprising that they didn’t choose to hear the case.
In short, the Supreme Court may very well hear a similar case, and may rule for the content owners.
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