TAB Executive Briefing: Recent Regulatory and Intellectual Property Developments

Topic: Recent Regulatory and Intellectual Property Developments, a Status Report and Look Ahead

Length: 90 minutes

Presenter: Harry Cole and Staff, Fletcher Heald and Hildreth

Description: Texas broadcasters are used to getting a once a year FCC regulatory update at the annual TAB convention and trade show, but 2012 has ended and 2013 has begun with a plethora of rapidly developing legal issues affecting both radio and TV broadcasters.

And it’s not just the typical FCC regulatory concerns affecting stations – intellectual property issues have arisen from court cases and in Congress to make things…ahem, interesting.

This webinar will look at some of the ongoing intellectual property issues affecting broadcasters such as:

• ASCAP/BMI/SESAC Rates
• Webcasting/Streaming Royalties 
• Royalties for Performance of Sound Recordings
• The Aereo TV Lawsuit
• The Mission Abstract Data Lawsuit

Cole and FHH staff will also present the latest on current FCC issues such as:

• The FCC’s Ownership Proceeding
• Broadcast/Newspaper Crossownership
• TV JSA Attribution
• Incentive Spectrum Auctions/Repacking
• TV On-Line Public File

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