Time Shifting in a Networked Digital World: Optus TV Now and Copyright in the Cloud

摘要

This article examines copyright principles applied in a recent Australian case concerning the legality of a consumer cloud computing service - "TV Now " - a free to air TV recording service based on the Internet. It enabled a subscriber to record a TV broadcast and then watch the broadcast later at a more convenient time. Similar decisions made by the courts in Singapore and the United States have also been considered. The ultimate purpose of this article is to explore how copyright law has been struggling to adapte to cope with the advent of new technologies for time shifting of free to air TV programme