Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2014

'It’s that time again when broadcasters and advertisers need to watch their commercials and promotions to avoid improper uses of trademarked phrases – with the Super Bowl only weeks away, the Winter Olympics to follow soon thereafter and March Madness to follow closely after that. Already, Stephen Colbert is making jokes about not using the Olympic rings in promotional announcements (see the first segment of last night’s show ), so you know that the issue is arising at media outlets

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The Paralegal Resource

JANUARY 15, 2014

The fourth quarter showed poor results for the banking giant JP Morgan Chase with a seven percent decrease in their overall profit. The dip in their charts is a direct result of the legal fees that the company had to deal with during this time. The bank had earlier announced a net inflow of money of about $5.3 billion, down from $5.7 billion during the same quarter last year.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

'The Supreme Court on Friday announced that is has decided to review the decision of a US Appeals Court in New York finding that the Aereo service of retransmitting over the Internet the signals of local television stations, without permission from or payment to those stations, was legal. We wrote about the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Aereo case here.

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