The FCC should take swift and decisive enforcement action against...
The FCC should take swift and decisive enforcement action against video programming distributors (VPDs) that don’t comply with new Internet Protocol-video captioning rules that take effect Sept. 30, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and a group of…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
other advocates for the deaf wrote the agency this week. “There is no excuse for anything less than full and timely compliance with the Commission’s rendering requirements,” the letter said (http://xrl.us/bnoohe). “VPDs have been afforded a lengthy period of time to comply with the basic rendering requirement that lies at the heart of the Commission’s IP captioning rules.” The advocates also said the commission should not further delay a Jan. 1, 2014, deadline for VPDs to comply with other technical elements of the IP captioning rules. The commission granted a Digital Media Association petition to delay compliance with those requirements last month, but denied another that would have similarly pushed back the deadline for compliance with the rendering requirements (CD Aug 20 p4).