Bulletin Categories: Copyright

It’s again that time of year for television stations to file distant signal copyright royalty claims.  Claims for 2017 must be filed no later than 11:59 p.m. EST on July...

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) recently announced an increase in the sound recording royalty rates that noninteractive webcasters pay to SoundExchange, effective January 1, 2018.  Each year, the CRB is...

Settlement of the ongoing legal battle over copyright between broadcasters and FilmOn X has been announced—but precious few details are available due to the confidential nature of the settlement. As...

In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Internet streaming service Aereo infringed copyright holders’ exclusive rights when it captured programs broadcast over the air and retransmitted them to paying...

As we advised last month, television station distant signal copyright royalty claims for 2015 must be filed no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 29.  When a television station’s copyrighted...

Don’t leave money on the table.  When a television station’s copyrighted programming is retransmitted by cable or satellite as a “distant” signal, the station may be entitled to receive payment...

In November 2015, a D.C. federal court ruled that Internet video streaming service FilmOn X could not invoke the compulsory copyright license available to cable systems under Section 111 of the...

Radio broadcasters who stream their programming over the Internet will be bringing in the New Year with much cheer.  The Copyright Royalty Board (“CRB”)—which is the entity that regulates music...

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Aereo decision in 2014, the battle between broadcasters and internet streaming services shifted to focus on whether online video distributors (OVDs) such as FilmOn X...

Don’t leave money sitting on the table.  When a television station’s copyrighted programming is retransmitted by cable or satellite as a “distant” signal, the station may be entitled to receive...