Articles Tagged with Super Bowl

FCC: Anti-Abortion Activist Can’t Run Super Bowl Sunday TV Ads Updated: by

The Federal Communications Commission ('FCC') ruled today that anti-abortion activist Randall Terry (inset, right) failed to show "that he is a legally qualified" presidential candidate entitled to "reasonable" broadcast TV access in Illinois. Even if he was, the FCC concluded, Chicago NBC affilate WMAQ did not act unreasonably when it…

Pre-Super Bowl IP Offensive: DOJ Charges One with Criminal Sports Broadcast Piracy, Seizes Counterfeit Merchandise Updated: by

In pre-Super Bowl style, prosecutors charged a Michigan man with criminal copyright violations for allegedly operating nine (9) websites chock full of pirated sports broadcast videos (read the complaint below). Separately, federal agents also seized a purported $4.8 million in knock-off Super Bowl merchandise imported into the U.S. The U.S.…