iHeartMedia, Cox and seven other radio broadcasters are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission for permission to disclose paid sponsorships online, instead of stating them on the air. Musicians criticize the proposal, arguing that it will weaken curbs on payola, The New York Times reports.

It has been five years since copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven decided to sue bloggers for reposting stories from newspapers like the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Righthaven itself is now defunct, but its lawsuits led to some sweeping rulings about “fair use” -- including a decision finding that a blogger who reposted an entire news article made fair use of the piece. “Righthaven’s litigation campaign imposed substantial personal cost on individual defendants, but society benefited overall from Righthaven’s litigation efforts,” Eric Goldman writes on the Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

Governments throughout the world issued more than 35,000 requests to Facebook for user data in the last six months of 2014, Cnet reports. The social networking service also says it saw a more governmental requests to censor content.

The new net neutrality rules can be challenged in court as soon as they are published in the Federal Register, which could happen as soon as this week, Bloomberg Business reports. The most likely challenger is a trade group, as opposed to an individual telecom or cable company, two observers tell Bloomberg.

The Federal Communications Commission will allow Google to test a service that delivers broadband to rural areas via drone, ComputerWorld reports. The FCC licenses, which expire in September, will enable Google to run tests in portions of New Mexico.

New York Police Department computers were used to edit Wikipedia pages about three civilians killed by police -- Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell, Capital New York reports. The sentence “Garner raised both his arms in the air” was revised to “Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke.” 

The Federal Communications Commission Thursday released its 183-page municipal-broadband ruling, which vacated state curbs on muni-broadband in North Carolina and Tennessee. The ruling immediately allows the operators of Chattanooga's 1 GB fiber network to expand, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, AT&T and other opponents of the FCC's decision have 30 days to appeal; Haslam has already asked the attorney general to investigate doing so.  

Aereo's sale of its customer lists and trademarks to TiVo for $1 million was approved on Thursday by a bankruptcy judge in New York. TiVo hasn't yet elaborated on how it intends to use the assets, PC Magazine reports.

Last year, the U.K. paper The Guardian made headlines with an article alleging that the anonymous social networking app Whisper fell short on its privacy promises. Now, the paper has retracted many of its allegations, Re/code reports. The Guardian also removed the article “Think you can Whisper privately? Think again” from its site.  

The Federal Communications Commission will expand its Lifeline program in order to help make broadband service more affordable for people with low incomes, the National Journal reports. Commissioner Mignon Clyborn told the National Journal that she hopes the FCC will release a proposal by this summer.