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The United States Federal Communications Commission is an independent federal agency established by the Communications Act of 1934. The Commission is charged with regulating interstate and international... more +

FCC Admonishes Three Broadcasters for Not Including Nondiscrimination Clauses in Ad Sales Agreements

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/28/2024

The FCC's Media Bureau recently issued three orders separately admonishing three television broadcasters in Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina for their failure to adhere to the requirement that broadcasters not...more

FCC's New Foreign Sponsorship Rules Go into Effect Stations Should Review Agreements Carefully for Compliance

BakerHostetler on 3/24/2022

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new rules governing foreign sponsorship disclosures for broadcasters went into effect on March 15, 2022. Broadcast stations airing BBC, France 24, Al Jazeera and Deutsche Welle...more

Businesses and Commercial Real Estate Owners May Need Copyright Public Performance Licenses

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC on 11/11/2019

What Rights Does Your Music License Agreement Give You? Many people believe that when they pay for a subscription to a music subscription service, such as Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, or Google Play Music,...more

Courts Contemplate Companies' Ability to Restrict Means of Revoking TCPA Consent

Hudson Cook, LLP on 5/20/2019

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is notorious. It establishes rigorous consent standards to use an autodialer or a prerecorded message. It gives consumers a private right of action. It imposes ruinous statutory damages....more

Reversal of Fortune: Court Reconsiders and Reverses Earlier Ruling Finding That Contractual Consent Cannot Be Revoked

Womble Bond Dickinson on 11/15/2018

As of yesterday, the “Good Reyes” contractual consent decision in Tina Few v. Receivables Performance Management out of the Northern District of Alabama has officially been reconsidered and reversed. Cue the sad trombone. As...more

Bargained-For Consent: An Increasingly Viable Defense to TCPA Claims

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/6/2018

• In most TCPA cases, a threshold question is whether a called party has provided prior express consent to receive calls (or texts) using an automatic telephone dialing system. • While numerous courts have ruled that a party...more

Locked-In: TCPA Consent Not Revocable If a Term of Contract

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 6/28/2017

Consent to be contacted under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is not revocable if included as a term of a written contract, according to a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Reyes v....more

FCC's Order on Broadband Privacy Will Be Felt by Energy Companies

Stinson LLP on 11/14/2016

Modern energy companies should pay close attention to the Federal Communications Commission's recent order adopting rules protecting the privacy of customer proprietary information. Although not particularly focused on energy...more

FCC Issues Tariff Investigation Order and NPRM Which Proposes to Substantially Revise and Expand the Regulation of Business Data...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 5/26/2016

In May 2016, the FCC moved forward with its decade-overdue reform of the $45 Billion per year dedicated business data services (“BDS”) market. BDS providers, including major incumbent telecommunications companies and now even...more

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