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Closed captioning reminder: starting March 30, 2013, video programming that is or was aired live or “near live” on TV must be captioned when distributed online

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 1 2013

The time is drawing near for the next phase of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements implementing the 21st Century Communications and

UK Court of Appeal holds that, upon notice, Google may be liable for defamatory user-generated content on blogging platform operated by Google

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 19 2013

In a unanimous ruling issued on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, the England and Wales Court of Appeal held that Google may be deemed a "publisher" of (and

FCC overhauls experimental licensing rules

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 6 2013

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced a significant overhaul of its experimental licensing rules designed to make it easier

D.C. Circuit vacates plug and play order and encoding rules applicable to multichannel video programming distributors

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 16 2013

On Jan. 15, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided that the FCC lacked the statutory authority to adopt its 2003

President Obama signs Video Privacy Protection Act amendment

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2013

On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed H.R. 6671, the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act of 2012, which amends the Video Privacy

Broadcast station reminder: quarterly issuesprograms lists and children’s TV programming reports due Jan. 10, 2013TV stations to post online

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2012

By Jan. 10, 2013, all radio and television broadcast stations, both commercial and noncommercial, must prepare a list of important issues facing their communities of license, and the programs aired during October, November and December dealing with those issues

FTC again challenges kids' mobile app data collection and disclosure practices

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 13 2012

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released on December 10, 2012, its second staff report on disclosures for mobile apps targeted at children, building on its prior report issued 10 months earlier

Ninth Circuit issues divergent commercial speech decisions

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2012

On Oct. 15, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two decisions notable for their discussion of what constitutes commercial speech under the First Amendment

Program access update: sunset of exclusive program contract prohibition

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 3 2012

Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Report and Order (Order) in which it declined to further extend the program access law’s exclusive contract prohibition

Federal court finds Albert Einstein’s postmortem publicity rights have expired under New Jersey common law, dismisses lawsuit against General Motors

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 21 2012

On Oct. 15, the federal district court for the Central District of California dismissed a lawsuit filed against General Motors by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which has long claimed to own the postmortem publicity rights of Albert Einstein