Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 14, 2014

'In discussing music royalties, the controversy that usually makes the news is the dispute between music services and copyright holders – with services arguing that the royalties are too high and rightsholders contending that they are underpaid. The introduction of the Songwriters Equity Act in Congress earlier this year seems to point toward a new area of dispute – one between the various rightsholders themselves.

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The Paralegal Resource

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not a lawyer, yet represent a client, in a court, during a legal proceeding, and charge money for your services, it would be deemed an unauthorized practice of law (UPL). So, if you do not hold a license to practice law, then you cannot provide legal service to a client.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2014

'Last week, the Copyright Royalty Board published in the Federal Register its decision on Internet radio royalties for 2011-2015. The question that I received many times since the publication last week is “huh, didn’t we already see that decision a long time ago?” Indeed we did – the original decision setting the rates was reached in December 2010 (which we wrote about here and here ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 19, 2014

'This blog usually covers legal and policy issues, not product reviews. And this article will at least try to relate policy decisions to a product review, but mostly it’s to share a cool new feature on my phone. To explain, I am one of those holdouts still using a Blackberry. In dealing with new media clients, I almost feel like I have to make excuses for still using a Blackberry, but as an attorney who travels frequently and writes many emails from the road, the physical keyboard reall

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2014

'The FCC on Friday issued a reminder to all TV stations that, as of July 1, they will have to upload all of their new political broadcasting documents to their online public file s. Up to this point, only stations affiliated with the Top 4 networks in the Top 50 markets had to worry about putting their political file materials online. Later this year, that obligation is extended to all TV stations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2014

'The incentive auction by which the FCC will try to get some television stations to surrender their spectrum so that it can be sold to wireless broadband users is moving forward. A vote on the general rules to implement the auction and to repack the television band are expected to be held at the Commission’s May 15 meeting. We are now beginning to get a look at what the FCC is thinking, based on a post on the FCC’s blog on Friday by Chairman Wheeler , and a fact sheet released later that day (

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

'With so much going on at the FCC and in connection with other topics that we consider, I’m sometimes late getting to all of the issues that arise, and sometimes never mention some of them. But there is one interesting and important proceeding that the Commission has recently resuscitated and is worthy of mention – the proposal to mandate multilingual emergency alerts by broadcast stations – even when the station broadcasting in a language other than English is knocked off the air by some

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 10, 2014

'The FCC is now taking comments on the proposal to do away with the syndicated exclusivity and network nonduplication protection rules. The Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, about which we wrote here , was published in the Federal Register today , giving interested parties until May 12 to file their initial comments , and until June 9 to file their replies.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2014

'The FCC meeting yesterday proposed to attribute Joint Sales Agreements (making them “count” for multiple ownership purposes – meaning that one broadcaster can’t do a JSA with another station unless it can own the other station). The Commission also apparently kicked the can down the road on all other multiple ownership matters – not changing the local TV ownership rules or amending the newspaper broadcast cross-ownership restrictions, instead deciding to further consider any

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

'Some quick items to update some of our recent articles. The FCC has granted extensions of time to comment in two rulemaking proceedings, and released its tentative agenda for its next open meeting where it will adopt an initial order in the incentive auction proceeding. That’s the proceeding that we most recently wrote about here by which the FCC will begin the process of paying TV stations to surrender their licenses so that the spectrum can be repurposed for wireless broadband purposes.

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The Paralegal Resource

APRIL 15, 2014

Technology has entered every sphere of our lives. Cell phones, especially smartphones, have brought technology to our fingertips. Apps geared towards making us more efficient in our work have grown in numbers. It is no different for paralegals. They run a tight schedule and work on several things at the same time. Let?s take a look at five apps that can make their jobs a little easier.

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The Paralegal Resource

APRIL 15, 2014

What is electronic discovery or eDiscovery? It is basically, any process by which electronic data is obtained, saved and searched. The objective is to use the data as evidence for a civil or criminal case in a court of law. It can be done both offline and online, depending on your need and the eDiscovery providers services.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2014

'While we are waiting for the full text of the FCC’s decision taken Monday on the multiple ownership rules , rolling one Quadrennial Review into another and prohibiting most Joint Sales Agreements , we can look in more detail at the FCC’s decision on retransmission consent issues. We wrote about the historical background of both of these issues earlier this week.

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The Paralegal Resource

APRIL 3, 2014

While the law firms and legal departments across the nation adopt measures to counter recession by cutting overhead costs and delegating their work to freelancing paralegals, it?s time for the paralegal force to make hay while the sun shines.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 17, 2014

'The text of the FCC’s decision on the attribution of Joint Sales Agreements for multiple ownership purposes, and the termination of the 2010 Quadrennial Review of the ownership rules and the start of the 2014 Quadrennial Review , has now been released by the FCC. In a slim 211 pages of text, plus another 24 pages of concurring and dissenting opinions, there is more than enough for broadcasters, lawyers and regulators to digest for weeks.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2014

'The Copyright Office recently issued a Notice and Request for Public Comment on a study that they have commenced on music licensing in all of its forms. We’ve written about the complexity of the music licensing process many times, and about proposals for reform. Many of these proposals have been issued in connection with the speeches of Copyright Register Maria Pallante’s discussion of copyright reform (see our article here ), and the subsequent Green Paper on Copyright issued by the Patent a

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

'It’s political season, and somewhere, some on-air broadcast air personality is making the decision that they really want to change careers – and run for political office. We’ve written about what a broadcaster needs to do when that decision is made by one of their personalities, but I guess not every broadcaster reads this blog, as a story in the Salem (Oregon) Statesman Journal from last week shows that there is still some confusion about what the rule provides.

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