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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OCTOBER 27, 2014

“There just are not enough hours in the day to do everything myself! I want to improve my work-life balance by delegating tasks, but no one is available. I keep reading and hearing about virtual paralegals and virtual assistants as affordable options, but I wonder: Where can I find virtual support which meets the needs of my law practice?”. Solo and small firm attorneys often share these same thoughts.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the paralegal and legal assisting field is expected to grow at a rate of 17% between 2012 and 2022. This is 6% faster than the average industry growth rate. Now, here’s where most of you reading this, say “No Way! I don’t believe that for a second!” […].

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JUNE 27, 2014

When a partner or associate asks for a legal memo or email regarding a legal topic, he or she is asking for a complete analysis of one or more legal topics. This memo can help form the basis of important decisions, such as whether or not a case should be taken. Additionally, a legal memo can establish the foundation for other legal documents, such as preliminary motions, motions in limine and briefs to the court.

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MAY 22, 2014

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On June 25, 2013, President Obama delivered a major speech on the topic of climate change. In it he outlined a broad policy agenda aimed at addressing the challenges posed by the changing climate. The agenda, detailed in The President’s Climate Action Plan , relies almost entirely upon executive powers; Congress is not even mentioned in the text. The diverse policy initiatives taking place under the rubric of the six-month-old Climate Action Plan are complex in their design, potentially signific

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JUNE 11, 2014

Life in a women’s prison definitely has its downside in a popular Netflix show, Orange is the New Black.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'An Alabama radio station recently received a notice about the new royalty rates that are payable to ReSound, the Canadian equivalent of SoundExchange , a collective set up to receive from webcasters royalties for the public performance of sound recordings and to distribute those royalties to the copyright holders (usually the labels) and the artists who recorded the songs, according to a story in today’s issue of Tom Taylor Now (a radio industry newsletter).

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'Social media and other digital platforms are playing a more and more important part of the business of traditional media companies. In the last few weeks, I’ve participated in two seminars, looking at the legal issues that arise in these areas. At the Winter Convention of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association , I conducted a seminar outlining the legal issues that broadcasters need to consider in their digital media endeavors.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 12, 2014

'On Friday, the Copyright Office extended by one week the deadline for comments on its wide-ranging proceeding on the current music licensing regime and whether reforms are necessary or appropriate. We wrote about the proceeding and the many questions that it raises here. Comments are now due on May 23. Comments can be filed on the Copyright Office website, here. .

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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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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2014

'The FCC has asked for public comment on whether it should extend the online public inspection file obligation to radio , and also whether it should adopt an online public file obligation for cable television and satellite television operators. The latter proposal originates in a recent petition by the Sunlight Foundation and two other public interest groups seeking an online political file for cable and satellite television providers. Sunlight has been active in filing complaints with the F

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

'It is a new year, and the FCC is starting with a new round of EEO audits. Letters to over 280 affected radio and TV stations went out late last week, and the FCC’s Public Notice of the audit, listing all of the affected stations, has just been released. The Commission has pledged to audit 5% of all broadcast stations and cable systems each year to assure their compliance with the Commission’s EEO rules – requiring wide dissemination of information about job openings and non-vacancy spec

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2014

'The FCC has recently staked out a policy that the any use of EAS tones, or tones that sound like those alerts, outside of a real emergency, will lead to big fines. Since the beginning of the year, the FCC has issued notices proposing fines totaling over $2.2 million against some of the biggest media companies in the country for such violations (see this decision proposing a $300,000 fine against Turner Broadcasting System Inc. for tones mimicking the EAS alerts that were included in a commerci

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

'Aereo finally lost a court decision. The US District Court in Utah released a well-reasoned decision finding that the service, by transmitting via the Internet over-the-air TV programming to subscribers without any consent from the TV stations or their program suppliers, violated the copyrights that the stations have in their programming. Specifically, the Court found that the transmissions were public performances , the very issue to be determined later this year by the US Supreme Court when

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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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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'50 years ago the Beatles invaded America, stacking up Number 1 hit records by the dozens, and creating music that, even today, remains incredibly popular with many Americans. But go to many of the interactive or on-demand music services, like Spotify, and search for Beatles music, and what will you find? Mostly cover tunes by sound-alike bands rather than the original hits.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

'The Copyright Royalty Board today published in the Federal Register its notice announcing the commencement of the next proceeding to set webcasting royalty rates for 2016-2020. The Notices ( here for webcasting and here for “new subscription services ” – subscription webcasting and other similar pay digital music services, other than satellite and cable radio whose royalties were set in another proceeding about which we wrote here ) were notable as they were not simply an announcement that the

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APRIL 23, 2014

'The Supreme Court heard the oral arguments in the Aereo case yesterday, it has received all the briefs, and now we all just wait for a decision – to probably be released late in June before the Court’s summer recess. The transcript of yesterday’s oral argument has been released and is available here. It makes for interesting reading, as the questions from the Court seemed to be dubious of Aereo’s claims that it can retransmit the signal of a broadcast television station over

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

'We recently wrote about FCC issues that will be facing broadcasters in this new year. While broadcasters will no doubt be busy keeping track of what the FCC is up to, they also need to have their eyes on other government agencies, as there are numerous issues that may come from Congress and the other regulatory agencies in DC that could affect their bottom lines.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

'TV stations in markets outside of the Top 50 , and stations in the Top 50 markets that are not affiliated with one of the Big 4 networks, need to begin to upload new material placed into their political files into their Online Public File as of July 1 – just a few weeks away. David O’Connor of my firm and I conducted a webinar for television broadcasters from 7 states last week, where we discussed this new obligation for smaller TV stations, and talked about what documents are supposed t

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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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