The Paralegal Society
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
By: Jamie Collins (With inspiration from Chris “Lights Out” Lytle) Have you ever witnessed a person in your midst who treated other people badly on … Continue reading →
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Bars and Restaurants, to make their businesses more attractive to customers, often feature music or video, often broadcast radio or TV. We wrote about the issues for businesses that play the radio on their premises here. This week, Landslide , the magazine of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Division, published an article that I wrote with Rachel Wolkowitz of our law firm, further exploring the rights issues – both for audio and video.
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LawActually
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Featured Post Manchester based Family Law solicitors Carter Law have noted a correlation between the use of social media and the incline of divorce rates. In 2014, a study revealed that marriage happiness and quality shared a negative trend with the use of social media and spouses in 1 out of 7 marriages admitted to contemplating separation as a result of social media creating issues in the relationship.
LegalTalkNetwork
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Click on the above graphic to enlarge. How to Listen to a Podcast on an iPhone. Step 1: Open the Podcasts app on your Apple Device. Step 2: Browse featured podcasts or click on the search option and type in the name of the podcast you want to listen to. Step 3: Once you find the show you are looking for, you can select an episode from the list and hit play, or click subscribe to automatically download new episodes of that podcast.
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A Synergistic Approach to eDiscovery In the space of eDiscovery, the convergence of document summarization, sentiment analysis, and chatbots represents a significant change in how legal professionals navigate and manage electronic information. These technologies not only expedite the review process but also empower legal teams with deeper insights into the emotional context and key information within electronic documents.
ABC's of E-Discovery
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Learn the language of e-Disovery: The first step in learning a new subject is to learn the terminology of that subject. The following is the first of a list of words to be presented. Sourced from " The Sedona Conference® Glossary (Second Edition)". e-Discovery - The collection, preparation, review and production of electronic documents in litigation discovery.
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The Paralegal Society
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
By: Jamie Collins Greetings, Paralegal Nation! Have you ever mentally pondered quitting your day job?
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Tomorrow, September 27, is the deadline for commercial broadcasters to submit their annual regulatory fees. We wrote about those fees and this deadline here and here. Don’t forget to get them in by the deadline, as the failure to file on time will result in processing holds on any subsequent application that your station may file, plus penalties and a possible collection action from the FCC.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
At last week’s Radio Show, Commissioner Pai presented remarks, talking about the pending regulatory ideas that can help radio broadcasters. After discussing the benefits of the recent rule changes that have made translators available for AM stations, and other AM improvement proposals that are on the table, he turned to FM. In his discussion of FM, he applauded efforts to include an activated FM chip in mobile phones.
LawActually
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Featured Post Every year, in the UK, around 1.5 million motorists are fined, or prosecuted for committing motoring infractions. The list of offences you can commit while driving includes speeding, driving without insurance, using a mobile while driving, failing to comply with traffic signals, and several other infractions. Given the fact that most people speed at some point while driving or make minor errors there is a tendency for drivers to accept blame automatically.
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Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
This week, I was given 15 minutes at the RAIN (Radio and Internet Newsletter) Summit in Nashville to summarize all of the legal issues that are important to digital audio companies including webcasters and podcasters. While getting everything into a presentation that short entailed some speed talking and the briefest description of many very complicated issues, I hope that I was able to at least outline issues about which companies should be cognizant.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
In today’s digital economy, trademarks are often the most valuable assets that a business owns. For example, in 2015, Google’s trademark portfolio was estimated to be worth $76 billion, which constituted almost one third of the entire value of the company. Microsoft clocked in at $67 billion, with Verizon close behind at almost $60 billion. While you may not hit 11-digit figures like these intellectual property behemoths, a smart trademark strategy can put you on the right course.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
September is one of those unusual months, where there are no regular filing dates for EEO public inspection file reports, quarterly issues programs lists or children’s television reports. With the unusual start to the month with Labor Day being so late, and the lack of routine deadlines, we didn’t get our usual monthly highlights of upcoming regulatory dates posted as the month began.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
September 29 will be a big day for broadcasters and other media companies when the FCC holds its next open meeting. In the tentative agenda for that meeting released on Thursday , the FCC identified several issues that deal with the media including two big items on video issues – the decision as to what to do about the Commission’s proposals to open the cable set top box to competing systems, and a new proposal designed to promote sources of independent programming for video distributors.
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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
It’s election season, and for the 60 days before any general election, broadcast stations are required to charge broadcasters the “lowest unit rate ” for comparable advertising time that runs on their stations. That means that, for each class of advertising time on any particular station, the candidate can only be charged the lowest rate at which any spots was sold to a commercial advertiser for that class of time during the particular period in which the candidate’s spots will run.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The FCC today released a series of public notices setting September 27 as the deadline for the filing of Annual Regulatory fees. We wrote here about the FCC Order setting the amount of those fees , and reminding TV stations, even ones looking to surrender their licenses in the incentive auction, that they must still pay those fees by the upcoming deadline.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (“FAA’s”) recently established rules to allow the commercial operation of small unmanned aircraft systems (“sUAS”) – more commonly known as “drones” – took effect on Monday, August 29, 2016. We previously wrote about these rules (and the opportunities and risks they present for broadcasters) here and here. For those eager to get their newsgathering drones off the ground, here are a few things to keep in mind: Certification.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Right as everyone was set to enjoy the last glimmer of summer over the long weekend, the FCC issued its Report and Order on the regulatory fees for 2016. The FCC adopted all the fees for broadcast stations as proposed in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (about which we wrote about here ) with some adjustments to the regulatory fees on radio and television broadcasters, based on type and class of service and on the population served.
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Short article looking at the new CCP 2016.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Incentive Auction Stage 2 to Begin September 13 – FCC Proposal to Clear 114 MHz. Given Tuesday’s declaration by the FCC that Stage 1 of the TV incentive auction did not meet its clearing target (in that enough was not bid in the forward auction to cover the amount needed to compensate television stations for surrendering their spectrum plus the costs of the auction itself), it is now on to Stage 2.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
On Friday, the US District Court judge who oversees the administration of the BMI Consent Decree rejected the recent Department of Justice interpretation that the antitrust consent decree required that, when BMI licensed music to music users, that license would embody the full musical work , not just a fractional interest that might be held by the songwriter who was the BMI member.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
In last week’s article beginning this series on Trademark Basics , we gave an overview of trademark basics and discussed why building up a strong trademark portfolio should be an important part of any media company’s overall business strategy. This week, we will discuss why identifying marks that you may use must be a key feature of your branding strategy.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The press has been full of reports over the last few weeks about Pandora and Amazon negotiating deals with record labels over music royalties , and some observers have expressed confusion – why don’t these services just rely on the rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board at the end of last year? The answer, as we have written many times before (see e.g. our articles here and here ) is that the CRB rates apply only to noninteractive webcasters (companies that provide radio-like services where th
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Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Last week, the FCC released its order eliminating the UHF discount. Under this discount, a TV broadcaster, in determining its compliance with the national ownership limit prohibiting any owner from having attributable interests in stations serving more than 39% of the nationwide television audience , would include in its count only one-half of the audience of any market served by a UHF station.
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
The FCC’s Order released at the end of August deciding the issues in its Quadrennial Review of its ownership rules is over 100 pages long. The full document, with the dissents from the Republican Commissioners, required regulatory impact statements and similar routine attachments totals 199 pages. The Order addresses many issues. For TV, it declines to change the local ownership rules , readopts the decision to make Joint Sales Agreements into attributable interests (thus effectively banning the
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