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Latest News in Telecommunications
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September 18, 2017
Charter Shorted Time Warner Workers Vacay Pay, Suit Says
Charter Communications wrongly shorted former Time Warner Cable employees vacation pay in the transition following the telecom giants’ $55 billion merger, according to a putative class action that has been removed to California federal court.
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September 18, 2017
Content-Makers Call For Stronger Copyright Rules In NAFTA
An association of creative content producers has argued that the "overly-broad, outdated" safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act should not factor prominently into a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement, saying the trade groups that stumped for the provisions to the U.S. Trade Representative represented not content producers as claimed but tech giants.
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September 18, 2017
Windstream Drops Appeal For Copyright Shield Against BMG
Internet service provider Windstream dropped its Second Circuit appeal Monday, ending a bid for a preemptive ruling that the ISP remained protected from copyright litigation initiated by music publisher BMG Rights Management LLC for failing to end the subscriptions of users who download pirated music.
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September 18, 2017
Benefits To Ex-Avaya Worker's Widow Deemed Unsecured
The widow of a former Avaya Inc. employee on Monday failed in her bid to have her survivorship benefits treated as an administrative expense rather than any other unsecured claim in the company’s ongoing restructuring in New York bankruptcy court.
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September 18, 2017
FCC Probes Sinclair, Tribune For More Merger Specifics
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. and Tribune Media Co. must offer specifics on how their combination would affect national and local media markets before the Federal Communications Commission will make a decision on their merger request, the agency has announced.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- State and local telecom regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Antitrust, consumer protection, and privacy controls
- Telecom lobbying
- International telecom regulation and legislation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Surveillance investigations and enforcement
- FCC administrative proceedings
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Antitrust suits
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Privacy disputes, including government surveillance complaints and data breach suits
- Intellectual property issues, including piracy actions
- International trade suits
- Fights over telecom regulatory limits
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder litigation
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Telecom infrastructure projects
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of telecommunications law practices
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys at telecommunications companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals