but the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) quickly promulgated rules that froze cable retransmissions of broadcast TV.114 In May 1966, the U.S. District Court for theSouthern District of New York held that cable companies publiclyperformed broadcast TV under the 1909 Copyright Act.115 The
Supreme Court reversed the Southern District of New York’sruling in 1968,116 but the FCC retained the freeze and forged