Word: supremecourt
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...Sony pitched Betamax bytouting its ability to record from onetelevision station while the screen actuallyshowed another.The battle even resulted in a landmarkSupreme Court case, Sony Corp. v.Universal City Studios. The latter party,along with several other major studios,claimed that Betamax’s recording technologyviolated copyright laws. The SupremeCourt ruled in favor of legal homerecording, setting an important precedentthat helps protect more moderntechnologies like digital video recording.VHS is dead now, though, and its opticalreplacement, the DVD, lies on thedoorstep of electronic obscurity thanksto the rise of high-defi nition video formats.Sony...
...members of the advisory committee were:Archibald Cox '34, Loeb University ProfessorEmeritus and former solicitor general; Robert E.Keeton, Federal District Judge and former Harvardlaw professor; Anthony T. Kronman, chairman of theYale Law School appointments committee; Ellen A.Peters, Chief Justice of the Connecticut SupremeCourt and former Yale law professor; and Harry H.Wellington, Yale law professor and former Yaledean...