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''Warner Bros. Entertainment v. WTV Systems'' is a 2011 copyright infringement case decided in United States District Court, C.D. California. The defendants provided a service named Zediva which allowed customers to watch movies online by streaming the digital signal from physical DVD players housed in its data center.〔 The court held that the defendants were transmitting and publicly performing the plaintiffs' copyrighted works, and thus granted plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction.〔 ==Background== The plaintiffs, including Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, and Universal City Studios, were in the business of financing, producing, distributing, and publicly performing copyrighted motion pictures.〔 The defendants, Zediva, self-described as a DVD "rental" service, served its customers with access to DVDs played from their data center where each DVD was streamed through its individual DVD player for up to four hours. Zediva customers did not have access to the digital file. Zediva was not licensed or authorized by the plaintiffs to distribute or perform any of the copyrighted works. Zediva purchased DVDs and "rented" them out to users one-by-one. Under the first-sale doctrine, if the defendants' business is identical to a brick-and-mortar rental store, such post-purchase rentals do not require subsequent licenses from the copyright owners.〔 Zediva claimed that once they bought the DVD they were "free" to rent it out or re-sell it. Zediva also argued that the system was "like playing back a movie from a DVD with a very long cable attached". The plaintiffs alleged that "Zediva's business was built on streaming performances of motion pictures, not the rental of discs".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mpaa.org/Resources/854d143e-93ff-42dc-9899-5d78d5774912.pdf )〕 Zediva's service was thought to have a significant negative impact on the market for other licensed VOD providers.〔 The plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction against Zediva. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v. WTV Systems, Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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