[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 196 (Thursday, October 9, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 60977-60978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24175]
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
U.S. Copyright Office
37 CFR Part 210
[Docket No. 2012-7]
Technical Amendments to Mechanical and Digital Phonorecord
Delivery Compulsory License
AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
ACTION: Final rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: The United States Copyright Office published in the Federal
Register of September 18, 2014, a final rule implementing section
115(c)(5) of the Copyright Act of 1976, title 17 of the United States
Code and prescribing by regulation the procedures for the monthly
payment of royalties and preparation and service of monthly and annual
statements of account by licensees pursuant to the Section 115
compulsory license for the making and distribution of phonorecords of
nondramatic musical works. This document makes technical corrections to
that final rule.
DATES: Effective on November 17, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarang V. Damle, Special Advisor to
the General Counsel by email at [email protected], Stephen Ruwe, Attorney-
Advisor, Office of the General Counsel, or Rick Marshall, Attorney-
Advisor, Office of the General Counsel, at the U.S. Copyright Office,
P.O. Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: (202) 707-8350.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The United States Copyright Office published
a final rule in the Federal Register of September 18, 2014 (79 FR
56190), which prescribed by regulation the procedures for the monthly
payment of royalties and preparation and service of monthly and annual
statements of account by licensees pursuant to the Section 115
compulsory license for the making and distribution of phonorecords of
nondramatic musical works. The final rule updated the existing payment
and statement-of-account regulations in response to legal and
marketplace developments, including the Copyright Royalty Board's
adoption of newer percentage-of-
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revenue royalty rate structures for certain digital music services, and
changes in accounting and industry practice in the years since the
rules were last substantially amended.
This document corrects two inadvertent errors contained in the
regulations set forth in the final rule. First, section 210.16,
paragraph (c)(1)(vi), included an incorrect cross-reference to
paragraph ``(a)(3),'' which does not exist. This incorrect reference is
removed and replaced with a reference to paragraph ``(c)(3).'' Second,
section 210.17, paragraph (h), included a clerical error that would
have required copyright owners to request annual statements of account
that they had not received for fiscal years ending after March 1, 2009
and before November 17, 2014, before the effective date of the
regulations. This error is corrected to reflect the Office's intent to
permit copyright owners to make such a request at any time within 6
months of the effective date of the regulations.
Accordingly, in the final rule FR Doc. 2014-22235 published on
September 18, 2014 (79 FR 56190), the Office makes the following
corrections:
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1. On page 56209, in the third column, Sec. 210.16(c)(1)(vi) is
corrected to read as follows:
Sec. 210.16 Monthly statements of account.
* * * * *
(c) * * *
(1) * * *
(vi) The phonorecord identification information required by
paragraph (c)(3) of this section.
* * * * *
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2. On page 56215, in the second column, Sec. 210.17(h) is corrected to
read as follows:
Sec. 210.17 Annual statements of account.
* * * * *
(h) Annual Statements for periods before the effective date of this
regulation. If a copyright owner did not receive an Annual Statement of
Account from a compulsory licensee for any fiscal year ending after
March 1, 2009 and before November 17, 2014, the copyright owner may, at
any time before May 17, 2015, make a request in writing to that
compulsory licensee requesting an Annual Statement of Account for the
relevant fiscal year conforming to the requirements of this section. If
such a request is made, the compulsory licensee shall provide the
Annual Statement of Account within 6 months after receiving the
request. If such a circumstance and request applies to more than one of
the compulsory licensee's fiscal years, such years may be combined on a
single statement.
Dated: October 1, 2014.
Maria A. Pallante,
Register of Copyrights.
James H. Billington,
Librarian of Congress.
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