The Paralegal Society

JANUARY 28, 2016

By: Jamie Collins Helllllooooo, my paralegal friends! Finally, at long last, you made it through yet another ultra-fabulous work week. Congratulations!

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 21, 2016

With the Super Bowl fast approaching, broadcasters and other media companies are planning advertising and promotions around the big game. Here is some advice to broadcasters from Mitchell Stabbe , a lawyer from my firm who has spent over 30 years counseling businesses on trademark issues, about legal cautions to consider in finalizing your plans: In addition to the monies it receives annually for the right to broadcast the Super Bowl, the NFL receives more than $1 billion in income from licens

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JANUARY 28, 2016

What Does A Paralegal Do At Trial (Series). By: Christina Roberts, CP. Most paralegals never get the chance to go inside a courtroom. That fact may be lost on most of the legal population. Approximately half of the paralegals in the Civil Litigation job category of the National Association of Legal Assistants 2012 Job Analysis Study listed Trial and Pretrial work as important in their day-to-day activities.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2016

The FCC today adopted rules to require that the public inspection files of radio stations (and of cable television systems and operators of satellite radio and television companies) to put their public inspection files online. While, thus far, the FCC has only released a public notice summarizing its decision and not the full text explaining its reasoning, what is clear is that the new rule will go in to effect later this year for commercial radio stations with 5 or more full-time employees whi

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

In the last week, copyright audits have been in the news. Several broadcasting publications noted the recent announcements by the Copyright Royalty Board that SoundExchange has decided to audit several companies that pay it royalties , including webcasters (including Pandora and a number of broadcasters in connection with their webcast operations ), business establishments services (those who provide music for stores and other businesses – DMX and Muzak) and music services provided by cable and

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

It’s that time of the year when we need to dust off the crystal ball and make predictions about the legal issues that will impact the business of broadcasters in 2016. While we try to look ahead to identify the issues that are on the agenda of the FCC and other government agencies, there are always surprises as the regulators come up with issues that we did not anticipate.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

Last week, we noted that an order acting on the FCC’s proposal to adopt a requirement for an online public file for radio, cable and satellite had been prepared and was circulating among the FCC commissioners for their review. Yesterday, in a post on the FCC’s blog , the FCC Chairman confirmed that the decision would be made this month at the FCC meeting on January 28.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

In tomorrow’s Federal Register, the Copyright Royalty Board will announce the commencement of three new proceedings to set music royalties for the 2018-2022 five-year period – each involving a different music right. The Board will begin a proceeding dealing with the digital public performances of sound recordings by satellite radio and “pre-existing subscription services ” – the royalty that Sirius XM pays to record labels and performing artists for its performance of their songs on their satell

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

The FCC yesterday released, and trumpeted, a Consent Decree reached with Cumulus Radio for a violation at one of its New Hampshire stations where full sponsorship identification announcements were not made on issue ads promoting an electric company’s construction project in New Hampshire. In the Consent Decree, Cumulus agreed to pay a $540,000 penalty to the FCC for the violations of the rules – plus it agreed to institute a company-wide compliance program to make sure that similar violations d

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