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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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 22, 2014

In this episode, Tina Marie Hilton of Clerical Advantage joins me to talk about office printers, including: Laser vs Ink Jet? Repair or Replace? Do you need a printer? Printer alternatives – eg services like Staples and FedEx Office What do we have for printers? Be sure to listen to this episode. It’s easy…and it’s free! Just click on the following links: Page URL: [link] iTunes Link: [link] Please share the links to this episode of Biz Buddies for Virtual Professionals with your friends and col

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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

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 1, 2014

'The Campaign Legal Center and Sunlight Foundation filed FCC complaints against 11 major market TV stations across the country alleging that these stations had inadequate online political files. The Center issued a press release about its filings , stating that these complaints “exposed widespread noncompliance with the disclosure requirements” of the law.

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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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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 20, 2014

'The FCC’s proceeding on its multiple ownership rules, adopting rules that make Joint Sales Agreements “attributable” (meaning that they “count” for multiple ownership purposes – one TV station can’t do one with another unless it can own that other station) and starting a new proceeding to review its other ownership rules, was adopted in late March.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 19, 2014

'In today’s Federal Register, the FCC is published its new rule on prohibiting the joint negotiation of retransmission consent agreements by stations that are not commonly owned. According to the notice, “it is a violation of the duty to negotiate retransmission consent in good faith for a television broadcast station that is ranked among the top four stations as measured by audience share to negotiate retransmission consent jointly with another such station, if the stations are not commonly ow

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 16, 2014

When the newly announced five-member national board officially took office in March 2014 at the NALS Professional Development & Educational Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I could say I know each of them personally and communicate with them often. It's comforting to know that an important national association is in such capable hands. How well do you know the NALS directors?

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 16, 2014

The NCCA has accredited the NALA Certified Paralegal certification program for a five-year period, expiring April 30, 2019. Founded in 1975, NALA is a professional association providing continuing education and professional certification to paralegals. Currently, over 8,900 paralegals may use the Certified Paralegal (CP) designation. The CP credential has been awarded to over 17,822 paralegals in its span of almost 40 years.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Despite US notions of innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, many innocent people have been sent to prison for lengthy to life sentences. Common reasons for these wrongful convictions are faulty eyewitness accounts, use of “junk” science as evidence, and informants with conflicts of interest. On this episode of The Paralegal Voice , I interview Professor Marla Mitchell-Cichon from the Cooley Innocence Project at the Thomas M.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 14, 2014

'Two weeks ago, we wrote about the complaints filed against 11 big-market TV stations about deficiencies in the political broadcasting paperwork in their online public file. This week, the FCC’s Office of Political Broadcasting in its Media Bureau sent letters to all of the stations involved, asking that the stations respond to the complaints and provide details about the factual assertions that were made, by May 27.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 14, 2014

'The National Association of Broadcasters on Monday asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to overturn the interim processing policy statement adopted by the FCC’s Media Bureau requiring that the FCC scrutinize every new Shared Services Agreement. As we wrote last month , the FCC has decided that television Joint Sales Agreements should not be permitted unless the stations involved could be commonly owned.

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