After postponing consideration of a proposal (which we wrote about here) from the Republican Commissioners at the Federal Election Commission to reject calls for a rulemaking to look at whether to require that there be labeling of political ads generated by artificial intelligence that falsely depicts a candidate, the AI item is back on
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The Past Two Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 26, 2024 to September 6, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past two weeks, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The FCC released its Second Report and Order setting the annual regulatory fees that broadcasters must pay for 2024.
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Using Artificial Intelligence in Developing Broadcast Programming – Watch for Legal Issues
It seems like virtually every panel at every broadcast and media convention, at some point, ends up involving a discussion of Artificial Intelligence. Sessions on AI are filled to capacity, and sessions unrelated to the topic seem to have to mention AI to appear relevant. Whenever there is a topic that so thoroughly takes over…
September 2024 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – FCC Regulatory Fees, LUC Window for the General Election, Comment Deadlines on AI in Political Advertising and More
It is time for our update on the coming month’s regulatory dates and deadlines to which broadcasters should be paying attention – and the deadline that probably is most important to all commercial broadcasters is not yet known. That, of course, is the deadline for the payment of annual regulatory fees – which must be…
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 19, 2024 to August 23, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from this past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- Some of the big news for broadcasters this week came not from the FCC, but from the Federal Trade Commission:
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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 12, 2024 to August 16, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from this past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The FCC announced that oppositions are due August 27 in response to the National Association of Broadcasters’ petition for reconsideration
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FEC Appears Ready to Take a Pass on Regulating AI in Political Ads
The agenda for the Federal Election Commission’s August 15 Open Meeting was released last week, and it contains a proposed Notification of Disposition of the FEC’s review of a July 2023 petition for rulemaking filed by the advocacy group Public Citizen seeking to initiate a proceeding to address the use of Artificial Intelligence in campaign…
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 5, 2024 to August 9, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from this past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announced that October 4 is the deadline for EAS Participants to file
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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 29, 2024 to August 2, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from this past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- Through a Federal Register publication, the FCC announced comment dates on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing that broadcasters
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The FCC Proposes Requirements for Disclosures About the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Political Ads – Looking at Some of the Many Issues for Broadcasters
Last week, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that was first announced by the FCC Chairwoman three months ago (see our article here), proposing to require that the use of artificial intelligence in political advertising be disclosed when it airs on broadcast stations, local cable systems, or satellite radio or TV. This…