If Aereo wins at the U.S. Supreme Court,...

If Aereo wins at the U.S. Supreme Court, it will seek to expand horizontally to 50 or 60 cities, said CEO Chet Kanojia at the American Cable Association’s Washington D.C., Summit Wednesday. Aereo’s business model is designed to address “an imbalance in the marketplace” and challenge video incumbents by emphasizing consumer choice, Kanojia said. The broadcasters challenging Aereo in the high court exist in a “collusive, anticompetitive universe,” and their arguments incorrectly combine copyright with the rules on retransmission consent, Kanojia said. “They would like to conflate the idea of copyright royalties with retransmission consent,” he said. “Retrans has nothing to do with copyright.” Instead of being about copyright, the case before the high court is about “how long the wire is,” Kanojia said, referring to the legal question of whether broadcast TV viewed using a personalized miniature antenna is a public or private performance.