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
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801. Copyright Royalty Tribunal: Establishment and purpose.
802. Membership of the Tribunal.
803. Procedures of the Tribunal.
804. Institution and conclusion of proceedings.
805. Staff of the Tribunal.
806. Administrative support of the Tribunal.
807. Deduction of costs of proceedings.
808. Reports.
809. Effective date of final determinations.
810. Judicial review.
Section 801. Copyright Royalty Tribunal: Establishment and purpose.
(a) There is hereby an independent Copyright Royalty Tribunal in the
legislative branch.
(b) Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the purposes of the
Tribunal shall be--
(1) to make determinations concerning the adjustment of reasonable
copyright royalty rates as provided in sections 115 and 116, and to
make determinations as to reasonable terms and rates of royalty
payments as provided in section 118. The rates applicable under
sections 115 and 116 shall be calculated to achieve the following
objectives.
(A) To maximize the availability of creative works to the public;
(B) To afford the copyright owner a fair return for his creative work
and the copyright user a fair income under existing economic conditions;
(C) To reflect the relative roles of the copyright owner and the
copyright user in the product made available to the public with respect
to relative creative contribution, technological contribution, capital
investment, cost, risk, and contribution to the opening of new markets
for creative expression and media for their communication;
(D) To minimize any disruptive impact on the structure of the
industries involved and on generally prevailing industry practices.
(2) to make determinations concerning the adjustment of copyright
royalty rates in section 111 solely in accordance with the following
provisions:
(A) The rates established by section 111(d)(2)(B) may be adjusted to
reflect (i) national monetary inflation or deflation or (ii) changes in
the average rates charged cable subscribers for the basic service of
providing secondary transmissions to maintain the real constant dollar
level of the royalty fee per subscriber which existed as of the date of
enactment of this Act: Provided, That if the average rates charged
cable system subscribers for the basic service of providing secondary
transmissions are changed so that the average rates exceed national
monetary inflation, no change in the rates established by section
111(d)(2)(B) shall be permitted: And provided further, That no increase
in the royalty fee shall be permitted based on any reduction in the
average number of distant signal equivalents per subscriber. The
Commission may consider all factors relating to the maintenance of such
level of payments including, as an extenuating factor, whether the
cable industry has been restrained by subscriber rate regulating
authorities from increasing the rates for the basic service of
providing secondary transmissions.
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