Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 8, 2014

'The Zapple Doctrine was an outgrowth of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine. The Zapple Doctrine required that broadcast stations that give air time to the supporters of one candidate in an election give time to the supporters of competing candidates as well. Even though the Fairness Doctrine has been defunct for years, having had various manifestations of the Doctrine declared unconstitutional either by the Courts or the FCC, Zapple apparently lived on, or at least a death certificate had never been

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 8, 2014

'This week brings news that a Virginia broadcaster has brought suit to have a court declare that broadcasters who stream their signal on the Internet, but limit the reception of the signal to within 150 miles of their transmitter site, should not have to pay royalties to SoundExchange. As we have written before, when Congress adopted the digital performance royalty for sound recordings in the late 1990s, there was an absolute exemption from the sound recording performance royalty for broadcast

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 8, 2014

'On June 6, FCC application fees are going up by 8%. The new fees were published in the Federal Register yesterday, here. This Federal Register publication sets out all of the new fees. To make sure that your applications are processed on a timely basis, be sure to pay the proper higher fees, starting on June 6. The old fees have been in place since 2009 (see our report here ), so remember to adjust to the new fees.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 5, 2014

'On Friday, the Copyright Royalty Board published in the Federal Register a proposal for changes in its recordkeeping rules – suggesting more detailed requirements for larger webcasters who are required to report the songs that they play on a “ census” basis – that would be most webcasters who are required to report the songs that they play, how often they were played, and how many people listened when they were played each time.

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