Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) filing a lawsuit against Global Music Rights (GMR) alleging that GMR was violating the antitrust laws by offering an all or nothing blanket license for rights to play the songs written by certain songwriters now represented by this new performing rights organization. RMLC was seeking to impose some oversight over the rates being charged for GMR royalties.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Yesterday was a busy day for the TV incentive auction, where the FCC is attempting to clear portions of the TV band by paying TV stations to surrender their licenses, and repurpose the cleared spectrum for wireless broadband users. As we wrote earlier this week, Stage 3 of the Forward Auction started yesterday, where wireless companies would have had to come up with over $42 billion dollars to meet the costs of clearing the TV band.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The FCC last week announced that Stage 3 of the reverse auction portion of the FCC Incentive Auction is now complete, and the amount necessary to be paid to TV stations to vacate the required spectrum in this stage is $40,313,164,425. This represents a drop from the $54,586,032,836 clearing cost that resulted from Stage 2 reverse auction bidding. In order for the auction to close, and the TV stations who had “provisionally winning bids” in this stage of the reverse auction to get the amounts t

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

A year ago, when the Copyright Royalty Board adopted the rates for webcasters (including broadcasters who simulcast their programming by online streaming) to pay for the sound recording performance royalty (see our summary here and here ), one difference from previous decisions is that there was a single per-song, per-listener royalty adopted. In the past decisions, the CRB set royalties at the beginning of a 5 year term that generally rose each year of that term.

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