FCC acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn has yet to lay out a clear agenda for what she will do in what could be an extended period leading the agency. More will be known next week, when Clyburn releases the preliminary agenda for her first meeting as chair, scheduled for June 27.
A week after being sued in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., online TV service FilmOn.com will stop streaming major broadcasters in D.C. and eventually all over the country, said an open letter sent to U.S. broadcasters by CEO Alki David. Doing business until now as Aereokiller, David’s company continues to call itself FilmOn.com after a recent legal settlement with competing company Aereo. David said FilmOn will replace the local network affiliates, the content of which it’s been streaming online, with independent stations, with which his company will negotiate residual fees. “This model will set a standard by which companies like Aereo will have a tougher time establishing the precedent of not paying broadcasters for the content that they own,” wrote David. Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC didn’t comment.
CBP intends to distribute assessed antidumping or countervailing duties for fiscal year 2013 under Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (CDSOA), it said in a notice. Certifications to obtain a continued dumping and subsidy offset under a particular AD/CV order or finding must be received by July 30.
A week after being sued in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., online TV service FilmOn.com will stop streaming major broadcasters in D.C. and eventually all over the country, said an open letter sent to U.S. broadcasters by CEO Alki David. Doing business until now as Aereokiller, David’s company continues to call itself FilmOn.com after a recent legal settlement with competing company Aereo. David said FilmOn will replace the local network affiliates, the content of which it’s been streaming online, with independent stations, with which his company will negotiate residual fees. “This model will set a standard by which companies like Aereo will have a tougher time establishing the precedent of not paying broadcasters for the content that they own,” wrote David. Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC didn’t comment.
Google’s proposals for settling an EU antitrust probe of its Web search and online search ad services are meaningless and should be rejected, consumers and search rivals said. Google’s commitments “far from meet” the consumer welfare standard of proof in antitrust investigations, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) said Wednesday in its response to the European Commission’s “market test” of the promises. The proposals don’t address the search giant’s anti-competitive abuse, said vertical search engine Foundem and the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP). All responses to the market test are initially confidential, Foundem said, but it published a May 14 initial analysis of Google’s proposals (http://xrl.us/bo6fa4) and ICOMP pointed us to its preliminary review.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty new shipper review on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970), calculating a preliminary zero AD rate for merchandise produced by Guangzhou Homebon Timber Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and exported by Power Dekor Group Co., Ltd. If the agency continues to find a zero AD rate in the final results, it will instruct CBP to liquidate entries of subject merchandise produced by Homebon and exported by Power Dekor during the period of review without regard to AD duties, and not collect cash deposits on such entries. These preliminary results are not in effect. Commerce may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
The FCC, having contracted for $208,799 of preliminary research on barriers to entering businesses it oversees like owning radio and TV stations, may spend as much as $917,823 for studies acquiring new data including on new media. That’s according to documents the agency released to Washington Internet Daily’s publisher under Freedom of Information Act requests. As the commission prepares to receive a new privately funded study on media ownership for which a vote on new rules was paused in February, it’s embarking on what officials inside and outside the agency called the next phase of barriers-to-entry research.
The FCC, having contracted for $208,799 of preliminary research on barriers to entering businesses it oversees like owning radio and TV stations, may spend as much as $917,823 for studies acquiring new data including on new media. That’s according to documents the agency released to Communications Daily’s publisher under Freedom of Information Act requests. As the commission prepares to receive a new privately funded study on media ownership for which a vote on new rules was paused in February (CD Feb 27 p1), it’s embarking on what officials inside and outside the agency called the next phase of barriers-to-entry research.
CBP has posted the fiscal year 2013 preliminary Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (commonly referred to as the Byrd Amendment) amounts available as of April 30 which provides information on the amounts available to disburse by case.
Several major broadcasters sued online TV service Aereokiller in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, and requested a preliminary injunction barring the company from rebroadcasting Washington-area TV stations. The lawsuit is the latest in an ongoing battle between broadcasters and Aereokiller and competing service Aereo, which both use networks of tiny individual antennas to rebroadcast TV stations’ content. “A court in California has already enjoined Aereokiller from operating in nine western states, in the process recognizing that the commercial retransmission of our broadcasts without permission or compensation is a clear violation of the law and congressional intent,” said ABC, NBC, Fox and Allbritton Communications in a joint statement. “We believe that the DC court will uphold our copyright interests and further restrict Aereokiller’s operations.” Aereokiller did not comment.