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| | EFF: Newmark, et al., v. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. et al. |
 | | They asked the court to rule that using their ReplayTVs to skip commercials, record shows for later viewing, and send shows is fair use, not copyright infringement. |
 | | In their lawsuits against the ReplayTV's creators, the studios asked the court to overturn the Supreme Court's Sony Betamax ruling, which found that new technologies that interact with copyrighted works can't be outlawed by copyright law if they are capable of substantial non-copyright-infringing uses. |
 | | It ruled that there was no longer a live issue between the studios and the five original ReplayTV owners because of the studios' promise not to sue them, and because the studios' lawsuit against the former owner of ReplayTV had been dismissed. |
| www.eff.org /IP/Video/Newmark_v_Turner (1588 words) |
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