Communications, Media & Entertainment

April 7, 2020

Dear colleagues and friends in the legal community, We hope you are staying safe and healthy as COVID-19 continues to spread. We are following the social distancing orders and keeping […] The post Update from Johnson & Hunter, Inc. appeared first on Johnson & Hunter, Inc..…

FCC Law Blog

Too Much Time on Their Hands – New Executive Order Limits Time Period for Team Telecom Reviews

By Brian Weimer & Drew Svor

April 7, 2020

On April 4th, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Establishing the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector. The Executive Order essentially formalizes the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or “Commission”) existing “Team Telecom” review process by establishing the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector (“Committee”), with one notable exception: for the first time, Team Telecom reviews will…

Close-Ups

Man vs. Machine: Schwarzenegger Files Right of Publicity Suit Against Robot Builder

By Lee S. Brenner & Adam W. Kwon

April 7, 2020

On March 4, 2020, Arnold Schwarzenegger (through his company, Oak Productions, Inc.) filed a lawsuit in a California state court against ASAP Group, LLC (doing business as Promobot). See Oak Prods., Inc. v. ASAP Grp., LLC, No. 20SMCV00347 (Mar. 4, 2020). According to the complaint, Promobot manufactures customizable service robots that can be made to look like real people, and it has “made Schwarzenegger the unwilling ‘face’ of Promobot” by marketing a robot made…

CommLaw Monitor

FCC Plans to Open Up 6 GHz Band for Unlicensed Use, Propose $9 Billion Rural Mobility Fund, and Address Orbital Debris at April Meeting

By Joshua Guyan & Bradford Currier

April 7, 2020

As the flurry of coronavirus-related actions continues, the FCC plans to return to “bread and butter” policy areas of spectrum and rural 5G deployment at its next meeting scheduled for April 23, 2020. First, the FCC plans to move forward on its proposal to open up 6 GHz band spectrum (5.925-7.125 GHz) for unlicensed use by smartphones, IoT devices, and other technologies. The FCC would allow standard-power unlicensed operations in certain band segments, subject to…

Ad Law Access

CCPA Litigation Round-Up

By Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik, Paul A. Rosenthal & Tara Marciano

April 7, 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect January 1, 2020. While the California Attorney General’s enforcement authority is delayed until July 1, private litigants have already started to file direct claims under the CCPA as well as other consumer-related causes of actions predicated on alleged CCPA violations. Notably, the California Attorney General takes the position that enforcement actions can cover violations that predate July 1, 2020. As detailed in our prior posts (see, e.g.,…

CommLawBlog

STIR/SHAKEN – Dial Another Day

By Seth Williams

April 7, 2020

With the new James Bond film delayed until the end of the year, the FCC has something to tide everyone over: STIR/SHAKEN – the SIP-based caller ID authentication process. Last year, Congress passed the Traced Act, which required the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to require caller ID authentication within 18 months of the Traced Act’s passage (June 2021). In response to the Traced Act, the Commission issued a STIR/SHAKEN implementation Report and Order (“Order”) and …

Broadcast Law Blog

FCC April Meeting to Consider LPFM and Video Captioning – Looking at the LPFM Proposed Order (Including Interference Protections for TV Channel 6)

By David Oxenford

April 7, 2020

The FCC last week released its tentative agenda for its April 23 open meeting. For broadcasters, that meeting will include consideration of the adoption of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (draft NPRM here) looking to broaden obligations for the audio description of television programming (referred to as the Video Description proceeding) – which we will write about in more detail later. The agenda also includes a Report and Order modifying rules relating…

CommLawBlog

Dates Announced for Comments on Regulation of RF Emissions in Higher Frequency Bands

By Peter Tannenwald

April 7, 2020

On January 9, 2020, we blogged about a Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) decision resolving many of the issues that it had been considering with respect to limits on exposure of human beings to radiofrequency (“RF”) energy. The FCC also invited comments as to whether it should extend its regulation of RF emissions from the present range of 100 kHz to 100 GHz up to 3 THz (3,000 GHz). Deadlines have now been announced for the…

New Media and Technology Law Blog

Work-Outs of Technology and Services Agreements Challenged by COVID-19

By Jeffrey Neuburger

April 7, 2020

In early February 2020, before most of us were truly aware of the implications of COVID-19, a well-respected IT consulting group predicted a $4.3 trillion global spend on information technology in 2020. Drivers of the projected activity included cybersecurity, outdated infrastructure, mobile accessibility needs, cloud and SaaS transitions, and on-premises technology requirements. In late 2019, another well-respected consulting group had predicted that, in 2020, “[t]here will be increasing opportunities for technology vendors and service …

MediaWrites

Event Sponsorships, COVID-19 and Force Majeure – Where do we stand?

By Rich Hawkins

April 7, 2020

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on commercial operations across all sectors globally. This is no better demonstrated than in the events industry, with international sporting events worth vast sums of money to organisers being cancelled or delayed… but what are the parties’ rights under the event sponsorship contract? In this short video, Rich Hawkins, Partner in Bird & Bird’s global Media, Entertainment & Sports group, discusses the unique challenges that event sponsorship contracts bring…

Communications, Media & Entertainment

Update from Johnson & Hunter, Inc.

Too Much Time on Their Hands – New Executive Order Limits Time Period for Team Telecom Reviews

Man vs. Machine: Schwarzenegger Files Right of Publicity Suit Against Robot Builder

FCC Plans to Open Up 6 GHz Band for Unlicensed Use, Propose $9 Billion Rural Mobility Fund, and Address Orbital Debris at April Meeting

CCPA Litigation Round-Up

STIR/SHAKEN – Dial Another Day

FCC April Meeting to Consider LPFM and Video Captioning – Looking at the LPFM Proposed Order (Including Interference Protections for TV Channel 6)

Dates Announced for Comments on Regulation of RF Emissions in Higher Frequency Bands

Work-Outs of Technology and Services Agreements Challenged by COVID-19

Event Sponsorships, COVID-19 and Force Majeure – Where do we stand?

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