GLG News by Telecommunications Regulation Experts: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Affairs (Washington, DC)

A federal district court's ruling has taken away -- at least temporariily -- a key legal weapon in the fight against music piracy online. The court's decision will make it harder to stop file sharing on peer-to-peer networks -- a prime source of music piracy -- by demonstrating that it violates the...

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for cable and satellite companies to allow consumers to record and store programming remotely on the cable company's servers.  This will provide more storage and perhaps more functions than on a DVR, and bypass the need to even have one. The case stands...

1)  Obama will continue to raise money at a record pace. 2)  But the Republicans, among public financing, the Republican National Committee, and independent organizations running their own ads, will at least match what Obama puts together financially. 3)  Therefore, Obama's fundraising...

For any company advertising online, what happens in the FTC effort to stimulate more aggressive self-regulation is critical.  The increased use of data collected online is leading to cutting-edge targeting of advertising that should increase sales while being more satisfying to consumers because...

As reported last week, Senators Baucus and Grassley have introduced legislation that would raise the effective tax rate on the proposed Blackstone Publicly Traded Partnership. Congressmen Rangel and McCrery have indicated they will introduce a similar bill in the House and hold hearings...

Regulations to impose the President’s proposals to increase CAFÉ standards by 4 percent per year as well as to raise the Renewable Fuels Standard to 35 billion gallons by 2017 could be announced within the next week or so. These possible regulations are in response to the recent Supreme Court decision...

* Court ruled that greenhouse gases are a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and that the EPA has the legal authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. * Ruling will accelerate action by EPA and Congress to limit or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from both mobile and stationary...