Legal Opinion
On/tv of Chicago v. Archie Ward Julien
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 31, 1985No. 84-1908PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
The defendant appeals the grant of a preliminary injunction preventing him from selling “decoder kits” capable of unscrambling the plaintiff’s subscription television signal. We affirm.
I
The plaintiff ON/TV of Chicago (“ON/TV”), an Illinois joint venture, produces, promotes and transmits subscription television services over UHF channels in Chicago. To ensure that ON/TV programming will be received only by subscribers, ON/TV transmits an encoded or scrambled signal that is incapable of reception by an ordinary television set. Reception adequate for viewing is obtained…
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