“The parties who contend that extending the 1992 Act’s program access provisions to OVDs is somehow pro-competitive fail to understand the difference between protecting competitors and promoting competition,” NCTA said. “Meanwhile, various broadcast stations are concerned only with the hypothetical matter of ensuring that if OVDs were ever able to offer broadcast programming pursuant to a statutory copyright license, broadcast stations would be entitled to retransmission consent – and pay no attention to the legal or real-world policy problems associated with extending MVPD status to OVDs.”
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