Re: Charge for Broadcast TV. As my thoughts indicates, the local broadcast station fee is intended to recover the money that AT&T has to pay the owners of the local stations that would be free to you via OTA but is typically not free for AT&T (or any video provider) to retransmit to you.
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) includes an new provision added to the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) that, depending upon how it is interpreted, may govern how district courts handle trade secret information in all cases.
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