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- Source: U.S. Government Manual, Washington, DC, 1990/91, page 64.
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- The Copyright Royalty Tribunal was established by act of October 19,
- 1976 (17 U.S.C. 801). The Tribunal is composed of five Commissioners
- appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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- The Tribunal adjusts copyright royalty rates for cable retransmission of
- broadcast signals in recording new versions of previously recorded songs
- and for noncommercial educational stations that broadcast musical, pictorial,
- graphic, and sculptural works.
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- The Tribunal also has stand-by authority to adjust the rates for jukeboxes
- and satellite retransmission of broadcast signals to satellite homedish
- owners if the parties are unable to reach voluntary agreements among
- themselves. In addition, the Tribunal distributes the royalty fees
- deposited with the Copyright Office by cable operators and satellite
- carriers to the proper copyright owners.
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- In making its distribution determinations, the Tribunal considers the
- harm incurred by the copyright owners, the benefit to the cable satellite
- user, the marketplace value of the work, the time the work was aired, and
- the quality of the broadcast.
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- [Actual legislation appears in the Copyright Act of 1976.]
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