Copyright Law of the United States of America: Contained in Title 17 of the United States CodeUnited States
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Copyright Law of the United States of America: Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code
United States
Copyright -- United States
(1) The proprietor of the establishment in which the public performance
takes place is not liable for infringement with respect to such public
performance unless--
(A) such proprietor is the operator of the phonorecord player; or
(B) such proprietor refuses or fails, within one month after receipt by
registered or certified mail of a request, at a time during which the
certificate required by clause (1)(C) of subsection (b) is not affixed
to the phonorecord player, by the copyright owner, to make full
disclosure, by registered or certified mail, of the identity of the
operator of the operator of the phonorecord player.
(2) The operator of the coin-operated phonorecord player may obtain a
compulsory license to perform the work publicly on that phonorecord
player by filing the application, affixing the certificate, and paying
the royalties provided by subsection (b).
(b) Recordation of Coin-Operated Phonorecord Player, Affixation of
Certificate, and Royalty Payable under Compulsory License.--Any
operator who wishes to obtain a compulsory license for the public
performance of works on a coin-operated phonorecord player shall
fulfill the following requirements:
(A) Before or within one month after such performances are made
available on a particular phonorecord player, and during the month of
January in each succeeding year that such performances are made
available on that particular phonorecord player, the operator shall
file in the Copyright Office, in accordance with requirements that the
Register of Copyrights, after consultation with the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal (if and when the Tribunal has been constituted), shall
prescribe by regulation, an application containing the name and address
of the operator of the phonorecord player and the manufacturer and
serial number or other explicit identification of the phonorecord
player, and deposit with the Register of Copyrights a royalty fee for
the current calendar year of $8 for that particular phonorecord player.
If such performances are made available on a particular phonorecord
player for the first time after July 1 of any year, the royalty fee to
be deposited for the remainder of that year shall be $4.
(B) Within twenty days of receipt of an application and a royalty fee
pursuant to subclause (A), the Register of Copyrights shall issue to
the applicant a certificate for the phonorecord player.
(C) On or before March 1 of the year in which the certificate
prescribed by subclause (B) of this clause is issued, or within ten
days after the date of issue of the certificate, the operator shall
affix to the particular phonorecord player, in a position where it can
be readily examined by the public, the certificate, issued by the
Register of Copyrights under subclause (B) of the latest application
made by such operator under subclause (A) of this clause with respect
to that phonorecord player.
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