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Copyright Law of the United States of America: Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code
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(C) if the actual gross receipts paid by subscribers to a cable system
for the period covered by the statement for the basic service of
providing secondary transmissions of primary broadcast transmitters
total $80,000 or less, gross receipts of the cable system for the
purpose of this subclause shall be computed by subtracting from such
actual gross receipts the amount by which $80,000 exceeds such actual
gross receipts, except that in no case shall a cable system's gross
receipts be reduced to less that $3,000. The royalty fee payable under
this subclause shall be 0.5 of 1 per centum, regardless of the number
of distant signal equivalents, if any; and
(D) if the actual gross receipts paid by subscribers to a cable system
for the period covered by the statement, for the basic service of
providing secondary transmissions of primary broadcast transmitters,
are more than $80,000 but less than $160,000, the royalty fee payable
under this subclause shall be (i) 0.5 of 1 per centum of any gross
receipts up to $80,000; and (ii) 1 per centum of any gross receipts in
excess of $80,000 but less than $160,000, regardless of the number of
distant signal equivalents, if any.
(3) The Register of Copyrights shall receive all fees deposited under
this section and, after deducting the reasonable costs incurred by the
Copyright Office under this section, shall deposit the balance in the
Treasury of the United States, in such manner as the Secretary of the
Treasury directs. All funds held by the Secretary of the Treasury
shall be invested in interest-bearing United States securities for
later distribution with interest by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal as
provided by this title. The Register shall submit to the Copyright
royalty Tribunal, on a semiannual basis, a compilation of all
statements of account covering the relevant six-month period provided
by clause (2) of this subsection.
(4) The royalty fees thus deposited shall, in accordance with the
procedures provided by clause (5), be distributed to those among the
following copyright owners who claim that their works were the subject
of secondary transmissions by cable systems during the relevant
semiannual period:
(A) any such owner whose work was included in a secondary transmission
made by a cable system of a nonnetwork television program in whole or
in part beyond the local service area of the primary transmitter; and
(B) any such owner whose work was included in a secondary transmission
identified in a special statement of account deposited under clause
(2)(A); and
(C) any such owner whose work was included in nonnetwork programing
consisting exclusively of aural signals carried by a cable system in
whole or in part beyond the local service area of the primary
transmitter of such programs. (5) The royalty fees thus deposited
shall be distributed in accordance with the following procedures:
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