Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

'This is the 75 th anniversary of the Mercury Players broadcast of the Orson Welles production of the War of the Worlds – a radio broadcast that seemingly scared many Americans into thinking that the country was under attack by Martians, that my home state of New Jersey had been overrun, and that the rest of the country would be soon to follow. PBS’s American Experience just ran a great documentary about the production – talking about Wells’ decision to delay an announcement that the program wa

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The Paralegal Resource

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Starting January 1, 2014, the state of California is set to expand its requirements for data breach notification under a new law. Along with this, the state legislature has passed two additional amendments addressing several data privacy issues. These three new laws, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, will also require the.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Ethan I. Strell, Associate Director & Fellow. Columbia Center for Climate Change Law. In a subtle but meaningful shift, the environmental impact review process in New York City is beginning to more systematically consider the potential effects of a changing climate on proposed projects, not just the effects that a project might have on the environment.

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Paralegal Essentials

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The following is a blog post from the CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar) on the subject of how to draft interrogatories: 7 Rules for Drafting Interrogatories. Enjoy! It is always good to be reminded of the basics.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

'At long last, it appears that we will soon have a complete FCC, as the Senate has approved the nomination of Tom Wheeler to be the next FCC Chairman, and Michael O’Rielly for the other vacancy on the FCC. The nomination of Mr. Wheeler had been held up by Senator Ted Cruz on grounds that he feared the FCC taking action to implement provisions of the Disclose Act (which we wrote about here ).

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The Paralegal Resource

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of England and Wales, was quoted saying that legal costs could easily be cut down if meetings with out-of-station lawyers were contacted through Skype. While meetings with lawyers within London could easily be arranged, various online services could have the effect of breaching traveling and stay costs for.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2013

'The deadline for filing applications in the LPFM window has been extended as a result of the Federal government shutdown – with the new filing deadline being November 14 at 6 PM Eastern Time. The FCC filing system is open now, so parties can go ahead prepare and actually submit their applications now. But as, during the shutdown, the FCC’s system was not available for research or application preparation, and as the FCC staff was not available to answer questions, the Commission gave

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2013

'The deadline for filing applications in the LPFM window has been extended as a result of the Federal government shutdown - with the new filing deadline being November 14 at 6 PM Eastern Time. The FCC filing system is open now, so parties can go ahead prepare and actually submit their applications now. But as, during the shutdown, the FCC''s system was not available for research or application preparation, and as the FCC staff was not available to answer questions, the Commission gave applicants

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'The FCC issued further guidance on FCC filing deadlines for regulatory submissions that were due during the 16 day Federal shutdown. The FCC has essentially given most applicants and filers a 16 day extension of time to file anything that was due during the shutdown. They note, however, that there are certain deadlines that they cannot arbitrarily waive – like the deadline for filing Petitions for Reconsideration of FCC actions , which are set by statute at 30 days.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'The FCC issued further guidance on FCC filing deadlines for regulatory submissions that were due during the 16 day Federal shutdown. The FCC has essentially given most applicants and filers a 16 day extension of time to file anything that was due during the shutdown. They note, however, that there are certain deadlines that they cannot arbitrarily waive – like the deadline for filing Petitions for Reconsideration of FCC actions , which are set by statute at 30 days.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'The government shutdown is over , most FCC staffers are supposed to be back at their desks, but not everything is operating as normal yet today. The Commission has published a notice saying that most filing deadlines that fall on or before October 21 remain suspended , and parties with such deadlines should refrain from filing anything with such a deadline until the FCC issues further guidance.

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The Paralegal Resource

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Time Magazine has declared Google Glass as one of 2012's best inventions. Though it is not yet available to the public at large, from what has been said about it, it promises to be game changer. As of now, only Google employees and some thousand 'explorers' have access to this device.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2013

'The battle over services that record and stream over-the-air TV without compensation to TV broadcasters has become even more confusing, with a US District Court judge in Boston denying an injunction to stop the Aereo service in Massachusetts in a suit brought by Hearst Corporation, which owns a local TV station. This decision comes on the heels of a decision the decision by the US District Court in Washington DC finding that Aereo-like service FilmOn X was violating the copyrights of TV station

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2013

'We wrote about the Department of Commerce’s Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy that was released back in July. While our article principally addressed the music issues raised by the Green Paper, many other issues were discussed in its 120 pages. The questions raised by the Aereo case (about which we wrote here , and we wrote about the similar service, FilmOnX , here ) were also discussed in the paper.

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The Paralegal Resource

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The Supreme Court recently heard the arguments of the case on campaign contribution limits. This case between the Federal Election Commission and McCutcheon is about the central contribution rules. McCutcheon is a businessman from Alabama and is also a GOP donor. He is fighting the case to urge the central government to repeal the current limit on the overall contributions that individuals can make in a period of two years.

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Paralegal Essentials

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It was all fine and dandy in your legal research class, but now your boss is asking you to write a memorandum of law for a motion for discovery (it could be for any motion), and you are having a panic attack. You have gotten so desperate that you started surfing the internet. It happens. Just stay calm, and remind yourself that you are a trained professional.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2013

'With the FCC closed because of the Federal government shutdown so no new decisions will be coming out for the time being, we get to look at some of the issues and decisions that we didn''t get a chance to write about when they first came out. One of the cases we overlooked raised the question of whether the FCC cares about a broadcaster’s market share when it goes to buy a new radio station, or will it simply apply the numerical station ownership limits set out in the rules?

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The Paralegal Resource

OCTOBER 7, 2013

There are many different reasons why you may have to find someone through an online platform. Most commonly, professionals do background checks by locating people on certain social networking websites and gain information from the different people that the applicant is associated with, and also from the information shared on the site itself.

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The Paralegal Resource

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Paralegals are specially trained assistants who assist attorneys or lawyers in their job. Typically, they handle routine jobs on a day to day basis including legal and non-legal research, interviewing clients, and filing and drafting of cases. They also look for precedents in course of research. Paralegals can work with a private attorney, a legal firm, banks, hospitals, and other organizations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2013

'Congressman Mel Watt from North Carolina this week introduced his long-awaited bill proposing that over-the-air radio broadcasters pay a royalty to sound recording copyright holders (usually the record label) and to artists. As we have written many times, currently, royalties on sound recordings are paid only by companies that make digital performances, including webcasters (see our summary of the current webcasting rates here ) and satellite radio (see our summary of the recent decision on sat

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2013

'The Federal government shutdown that we speculated about last week has now come to pass, and the clearest evidence is that, when you go to the FCC website , you are greeted by a special message essentially saying that the website is not available until after the shutdown ends. So, as we speculated last week, broadcast (and most other) applicants can''t even begin to prepare applications for filing when the government reopens, as the Commission''s CDBS database (as well as there other systems fo

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