Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 8, 2011

Just as webcasters thought that they had their royalty obligations figured out, there comes news that the already complicated world of digital media royalties may well become more complicated. Last week, EMI, which in addition to being a record label is a significant music publishing company, has reportedly decided to withdraw portions of its publishing catalog from ASCAP - which had been licensing the public performance of these songs.

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LexBlog

MAY 24, 2011

Traditional Vs The Modern Law Firm. The traditional legal industry has no solution for these types of situation but with the advancement of modern technology and the use of the internet there is a perfect and simple solution for these types of attorney-client concerns – Law Practice Optimization or Legal Practice Optimization (LPO). Many law firms still rely on paper-file system, snail mail, and face to face appointments with their clients.

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The Paralegal Resource

MAY 16, 2011

The paralegal salary range is quite wide depending on your education, experience, where you are located and the area of law you specialize in. Let's look at each of these factors in more detail.

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ABC's of E-Discovery

MAY 9, 2011

Extra, Extra: Get Your E-Discovery News Here! Exterro e-Discovery Beat Blog ; and another must read is Explaining e-Discovery - A Look at Some Common Misconceptions - from [link] - [link].

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 31, 2011

In December, the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (“CALM”) Act was adopted by Congress and signed by the President, addressing consumer complaints about television commercials that seem louder than the program content that they accompanied. As we wrote in our summary of the Act when it was adopted, Congress has long received many complaints about loud commercials and decided to act, even though many industry groups were concerned about the ability to design an effective s

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In less than a month, a four year cycle of radio and television license renewal applications begins with the filing, on or before June 1, of license renewals by radio stations in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. To help stations prepare for their upcoming renewals, I conducted a webinar, sponsored by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters and joined by broadcasters from 9 other state associations, discussing issues that broadcasters should be considering.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 1, 2011

The advertising to children of food deemed unhealthy has been the subject of government concern for many years. We wrote about the efforts of then-Senator Brownback to limit such ads - either by voluntary industry action or by government regulation. These concerns led to the formation of a public-private task force to come up with voluntary actions to limit advertising unhealthy foods to children.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 10, 2011

As part of the Local Community Radio Act which, among other things, repealed restrictions against protecting full-power FM stations from third-adjacent channel interference from LPFM stations, Congress required that the FCC conduct a study of the economic impact that such stations will have on full-power FM stations. The FCC began the process of conducting that study, asking for public comment on a series of questions designed to look at that impact.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 8, 2011

Three recent FCC cases demonstrate how seriously the FCC views tower site issues - imposing fines up to $14,000 for various violations of FCC rules. One $14,000 fine was in a case where an AM station's tower was enclosed by a fence that was falling down and did not enclose areas of high RF radiation as required by Section 73.49 of the rules. The station also had a main studio that was unattended on two successive days, and had no one answering the phone on those days - no one to respond to the F

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 31, 2011

In another example of how seriously the FCC is considering the reallocation of portions of the TV spectrum for wireless broadband use , the Commission today issued a Public Notice freezing any new petitions for changes in the channels of television stations. Since the DTV transition, almost 100 stations have changed channels - mostly moving from VHF to UHF channels, as television operators have in determined that VHF channels are subject to more interference and viewer complaints about over-the-

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 30, 2011

In March, we cautioned broadcasters against the airing of ads for medical marijuana. Our concerns stemmed not only from a complaint pending at the FCC, but also because, despite the widespread belief that the Federal government no longer cared about medical marijuana use and sale, the Department of Justice had only said that prosecution was no longer a priority, not that it was no longer illegal.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 19, 2011

The FCC has issued a flurry of fines against broadcast stations in the past week or two. While a number of these fines were for the operation of unlicensed pirate radio stations, several of the fines were for public inspection file violations, stations broadcasting with excessive power or failing to reduce power at nighttime, or for other technical violations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 12, 2011

It's almost summer time, and broadcast stations and other media companies are getting ready for the arrival of the summer associates. As we've written in our Guide to the FCC's EEO Rules , all FCC-licensed stations with 5 or more full-time employees must, in addition to widely disseminating information about their job openings , must complete a certain number of " supplemental efforts " from a menu list provided by the FCC - efforts intended to educate the public about broadcast employ

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 26, 2011

In several recent cases, the FCC issued big fines to stations that had significant gaps in their public inspection files - fines of between $10,000 and $14,000. Unlike many other recent public inspection file fines, these fines did not arise from self-reporting of violations in a license renewal application, nor were they discovered as a result of a complaint from a disgruntled listener or competitor.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 25, 2011

Just a reminder that radio stations in North Carolina and South Carolina are up next in the license renewal cycle, which means that pre-filing announcements for radio stations in these states must start on June 1st. The announcements continue on June 16, July 1, and July 16, for a total of four pre-filing announcements. These announcements give notice to the local community that the station will be filing a license renewal application with the Commission and invite participation in the renewal p

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 18, 2011

With the kick-off of the FCC's broadcast license renewal cycle comes some additional obligations for licensees, this time in the form of an FCC Form 396 Broadcast EEO Report. The Form 396 is filed only at renewal time and serves to: 1.) confirm the licensee's commitment to EEO, 2.) provide a narrative statement about how the station has achieved wide outreach in the preceding two years, and 3.) provide copies of the station's two most recent Annual EEO Public File Reports (assuming that it is no

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LexBlog

MAY 24, 2011

Traditional Vs The Modern Law Firm. The traditional legal industry has no solution for these types of situation but with the advancement of modern technology and the use of the internet there is a perfect and simple solution for these types of attorney-client concerns – Law Practice Optimization or Legal Practice Optimization (LPO). Many law firms still rely on paper-file system, snail mail, and face to face appointments with their clients.

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The Paralegal Resource

MAY 12, 2011

The experience and assistance of paralegal professionals proves to be extremely beneficial to the lawyers in delivering legal services to their clients economically and efficiently. Broadly speaking, paralegal duties entail collection and organization of all the necessary data and records required by the lawyer for the concerned court cases.

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ABC's of E-Discovery

MAY 9, 2011

Paralegals with ten or more years experience will remember the days when we sat in conference rooms along side contract lawyers reviewing hundreds of boxes of documents, reading page by page looking for specific information. Later, we begin to sit at computers staring at those pages of documents which had been scanned into a database - still looking for specific information while entering keywords, names, and other such information for each document and summarizing the documents.

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The Paralegal Resource

MAY 9, 2011

It's 4:30 on Friday afternoon when you get the message that a key vendor will not be able to deliver what was promised on time, which will in turn cause YOU to miss a critical deadline for your most important client. Frustrated, you call the vendor, who instantly denies ever being told about the deadline. You know deadlines were discussed but can't find it in your original written agreement.

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ABC's of E-Discovery

MAY 3, 2011

Reed Smith Hires K&L Gates Partner to Create E-Discovery Practice

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The Paralegal Resource

MAY 9, 2011

Today's business person will spend hours at the tailor crafting a fine business suit, hours at a power lunch sweet talking their next big client and hours pouring over proposals or negotiations to try to get every last penny they can, and then spend 30 seconds banging out an important email that will single handedly cost them a dozen more potential clients.

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