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FCC Adopts More Lenient Standards on Certain Fines to Student Run Noncommercial Broadcast Stations

Fines against noncommercial stations may that are primarily student run may not be as harsh as they have been in the past under a ruling issued by the FCC’s Media Bureau earlier this week. The new policy came about as part of a consent decree e...

Changes at the Copyright Royalty Board - Two New Judges Make for an All-New Board for the Upcoming I

The Librarian of Congress has announced the appointment of two new judges to the Copyright Royalty Board – marking a total change in the three judge board since the decision in the last webcasting royalty case (about which we wrote here). The t...

FCC Fines Up to $25,000 for Tower Issues Including Lighting and Painting Issues, Inadequate Fencing,

Failing to properly maintain a communications tower can be expensive, as a number of FCC decisions released in the last few days demonstrate. In several decisions reached in the last week, the Commission faulted tower owners for all sorts of problems...

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Topic: Advertising Issues

March Madness is A Trademarked Term Like the "Super Bowl" - Watch Your Advertising and Pro

We've written many times before about those big name events, like March Madness, the Olympics and the Super Bowl. Events that you and your advertisers are just dying to tie into your own local event – a sale, a party or maybe the introduct...

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Topic: FCC Fines

FCC Adopts More Lenient Standards on Certain Fines to Student Run Noncommercial Broadcast Stations

Fines against noncommercial stations may that are primarily student run may not be as harsh as they have been in the past under a ruling issued by the FCC’s Media Bureau earlier this week. The new policy came about as part of a consent decree e...

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Topic: FM Translators and LPFM

Saving AM Radio - What is the FCC Considering?

At the NAB Radio Show in Dallas in September, FCC Commissioner Pai promised that the FCC would take action to revitalize the AM band (see our story here). For years, AM has suffered a gradual erosion in listening, as interference on the band has incr...

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Topic: Music Rights

How a NY State Court Decision on Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Clouds the Safe Harbor Protections of Web

This week, the Chairman of the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee issued a press release stating that he intends that the Committee do a thorough reexamination of the Copyright Act, noting that new technologies stemming from digital media hav...

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Topic: Noncommercial Broadcasting

FCC Adopts More Lenient Standards on Certain Fines to Student Run Noncommercial Broadcast Stations

Fines against noncommercial stations may that are primarily student run may not be as harsh as they have been in the past under a ruling issued by the FCC’s Media Bureau earlier this week. The new policy came about as part of a consent decree e...

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Topic: Political Broadcasting

Reminder - Most FCC Political Rules Apply to Off-Year Elections for State and Local Offices

In odd years like 2013, most broadcasting stations don’t think about the FCC’s political broadcasting rules. But they should – both for special elections to fill open seats in Congress, and for state and local political offices.&nbs...

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