The Copyright Office Report on Compulsory Licensing of Broadcast Signals: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session ... November 12, 1997, Volume 4 |
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Page 100 - The significance of its efforts can scarcely be exaggerated, for broadcasting is demonstrably a principal source of information and entertainment for a great part of the Nation's population.
Page 75 - ... (ii) the economic impact of such fees on copyright owners and satellite carriers; and (iii) the impact on the continued availability of secondary transmissions to the public. (d) DEFINITIONS. — As used in this section — (1) DISTRIBUTOR. — The term "distributor...
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Page 35 - Panel shall consider the approximate average cost to a cable system for the right to secondarily transmit to the public a primary transmission made by a broadcast station, the fee established under any voluntary agreement filed with the Copyright Office in accordance with paragraph (2), and the last fee proposed by the parties, before proceedings under this paragraph, for the secondary transmission of superstations or network stations for private home viewing. The fee...
Page 20 - ... has no direct or indirect control over the content or selection of the primary transmission or over the particular recipients of the secondary transmission, and whose activities with respect to the secondary transmission consist solely of providing wires, cables, or other communications channels for the use of others...
Page 16 - ... questions. During the 105th Congress, it completed three studies. It also commissioned two reports, one on the long-term future directions of digital technology and another on CARP reform. a. Review of the copyright licensing regime's retransmission of broadcast signals. At the request of Senator Hatch, the Copyright Office conducted a review of the copyright licensing regimes governing the retransmission of over-the-air broadcast signals by cable systems, satellite carriers, and other multichannel...
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Page 47 - Thank you for inviting me to testify before you today on behalf of the NCTA, which represents more than 60 cable program networks and most of the cable operators serving our nation's 59 million cable subscribers.
Page 23 - ... programming should be compensated. The Copyright Office agrees that in both the cable and satellite compulsory licenses, the rates paid by the licensees for the retransmission of network signals should be equalized with the rates paid for the retransmission of independent signals (or superstations).