PRO: National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB), Amici Curiae
Robert Alan Garrett, Counsel of Record
The NFL and MLB are two of the largest professional sports leagues in the United States, with television broadcast licensing deals worth tens of millions of dollars annually. Robert Alan Garrett is a partner with the law firm Arnold & Porter, where he specializes in copyright and telecommunications law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 2014. Petitioners have demonstrated that the Second Circuit’s decision in this case cannot be squared with the text, structure, or legislative intent of the Copyright Act of 1976; the…
