Fill - Free fillable FormSC Satellite SOA Form (U.S. Copyright Office) PDF form

SPECIAL NOTICE ABOUT THIS STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT

Satellite Royalty Fee Rates

e Copyright Royalty Board has published a cost-of-living adjustment to the applicable royalty rates. For details,

see 84 FR 64206 (November 21, 2019).

Filing Fees

Eective January 1, 2014, pursuant to the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA),

which granted authority to the Copyright Oce to establish fees for the ling of statements of account (SOAs)

under the section 111, 119, and 122 statutory licenses, the Oce now assesses ling fees for all SOAs for current,

past, and future accounting periods. For details, see the Federal Register, November 29, 2013 (78 FR 71498

http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2013/78fr71498.pdf). Please be advised that the ling fee is deducted before the royalty

payment is credited; thus the omission of the appropriate ling fee will result in an underpayment of royalty fees.

Please remit the royalty fee and ling fee in one EFT payment. (SOA ling fee: $725).

Electronic Payment of Royalty and Filing Fees Required

Detailed instructions for making royalty payments via electronic funds transfer (EFT) are contained in circulars 74A,

74B, and 74C, available at www.copyright.gov/circs/circ74. Alternatively, contact the Licensing Division at the phone

or fax numbers listed above or by email at licfiscal@copyright.gov. The royalty payment must include the appropriate

filing fee and must be made payable to the Register of Copyrights.

Note: The Copyright Office encourages you to use the Pay.gov method for your electronic payment. In the future, the

Office intends to transition to a single EFT payment method (Pay.gov), which will be required for making royalty and

filing fee payments covering past, current, and future accounting periods.

Photocopy Required

A legible copy of the semiannual statement of account must be submitted together with the original statement of

account to the Copyright Office. Note: If you are replying to Licensing Division correspondence or submitting

revisions or amendments to your original SOA, only one original version of the revised SOA pages is required with

your reply letter, together with a single copy of any Licensing Division correspondence. Please do not include extra

photocopies of the SOA pages affected.

Fillable SOAs Available Online

Access the fill-in statement of account form at www.copyright.gov/forms/formSC.pdf.

Ceased Operations Procedures

If your satellite system completely shut down operations during the accounting period, report the facts as they existed

on the last day of operations and submit the SOA with the associated royalty and filing fee payments and a cover

letter informing the Licensing Division of ceased operations. If your satellite system had no subscribers during the

entire accounting period, do not submit the SOA or any fees. You do not need to notify us in this case.

Important: Review Filings

Please review all elements of your filing(s) before submitting them. Filing properly minimizes the need for us

to contact you with questions on the processing of your statement(s) of account and payments and reduces

administrative and other costs.

Mailing Address

Return the completed statement of account to

Library of Congress

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington, DC 20557-6400

If you have questions about the use of this form, contact the Licensing Division between 8:30  and 5:00 

eastern time at

phone: (202) 707-8150

fax : (202) 707-0905

email: licensing@copyright.gov

web: www.copyright.gov/licensing

FORM SC

Return to:

Library of Congress

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington, DC 20557-6400

(For courier deliveries,

see page i of the instructions.)

          1, 2020.

If you are ling for a prior accounting period, contact the Licensing Division for the correct form.

Space A

     :

(Check one box and ﬁll in the year)

#:

January 1– June 30, July 1– December 31,

(as assigned by the

Licensing Division)

Space B

    :

Your ﬁle is established under this name. Give the full name of the owner of the satellite

carrier. If the owner is a subsidiary of another corporation, give the full corporate title of the subsidiary, not that of the parent

corporation.

      

   ,  

 

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT

for Secondary Transmissions

by Satellite Carriers of Distant

Television Signals

Instructions are at the end of

this form (pages i–iv).

 : The statement of account must be ﬁled within 30 days after the last day of the accounting period.

The ﬁling deadline is July 30 for the January–June accounting period and January 30 for the July–December accounting period.

 

United States Copyright Oce

REMITTANCE NUMBER

AMOUNT

FOR COPYRIGHT OFFICE USE ONLY

DATE RECEIVED

Privacy Act Notice: Section 119 of title 17 of the United States Code authorizes the Copyright Oce to collect the personally identifying information (PII) requested on this form in order to process your statement of account.

PII is any personal information that can be used to identify or trace an individual, such as name, address and telephone numbers. By providing PII, you are agreeing to the routine use of it to establish and maintain a public

record, which includes appearing in the Oce’s public indexes and in search reports prepared for the public. e eect of not providing the PII requested is that it may delay processing of your statement of account and its

placement in the completed record of statements of account, and it may aect the legal suciency of the ling, a determination that would be made by a court of law.

Clear Form

Space C

 : —In this area, identify every

television station

licensed by the Federal Communications

Commission (FCC) carried by the satellite carrier during this accounting period.

Do not

list non-broadcast-program services such as

HBO, ESPN, TBS, or CNN.

• Column 1: List each station’s call sign, including each primary and multicast stream (e.g., WABC1, WABC2, etc.)

• Column 2: Give the number of the channel on which the station broadcasts over-the-air.

• Column 3: Indicate whether the station is a “non-network” or a “network ” station by entering the letter “NNS” (for non-network) or

“N” (for network). See page ii of the instructions for the meaning of these terms.

• Column 4: Give the location of each station. This should be the community (city and state) to which the station is licensed by the FCC.

Give the legal name as it appears in space B:

 ,  2

1. Call sign 2. Channel

number

4. Location of station3. Station type

(NNS 0r N)

Space D — Copyright Royalty and Filing Fees

: In this area, report the number of subscribers receiving each non-network and network station retransmitted outside the

station’s local market. For the deﬁnition of a station’s “local market,” see page iii of the instructions.

The subscriber information must be reported for

each month

of the accounting period. The stations should be grouped together

according to whether they are non-network or network stations as identiﬁed in space C. Then compute the royalty fee in part 3.

:

In the case of multicasting of digital non-network and network stations, each digital stream that is retransmitted by a satellite

carrier must be paid for at the prescribed rate, but no royalty payment is due for any program-related material contained on the

stream within the meaning of WGN v. United Video, Inc., 693 F.2d 622, 626 (7th Cir. 1982) and

Second Report and Order and First Order on

Reconsideration

in CS Doc. No. 98-120, FCC 05-27 at ¶ 44 & n.158 (Feb. 23, 2005).

: Royalty payments should be made for stations retransmitted under Section 122(a)(4), including networks of noncommercial edu

cational broadcast stations.

 ,  1 · Carriage for Private Home Viewing

• : Under the headings non-network and network stations, enter those stations’ call signs and the number of subscribers receiving

those stations on the last day of

each month

of the accounting period. Then, for each station, total the number of subscribers for all six

months of the accounting period and enter that ﬁgure under the column labeled total .

: Do

not

include (a) subscribers receiving a non-network station retransmitted within the station’s local market, or (b) subscribers

receiving a network station retransmitted within that station’s local market. See pages ii–iii of the instructions for a deﬁnition of these

terms.

• : Compute the grand total number of subscribers receiving secondary transmissions of a primary or multicast stream for non-

network and network stations.

 ,  3

non-network stations (private home viewing)

       

Call signs

Month 1

(Jan/July)

Month 2

(Feb/Aug)

Month 3

(Mar/Sept)

Total

Month 6

(June/Dec)

Month 5

(May/Nov)

Month 4

(Apr/Oct)

Grand total non-network station subscribers (private home viewing):

Give the legal name as it appears in space B:

 ,  4

 ,  2 · Carriage for Viewing in a Commercial Establishment

: A commercial establishment is deﬁned as an establishment used for commercial purposes, such as a bar, restaurant, private

ofﬁce, ﬁtness club, oil rig, retail store, bank or other ﬁnancial institution, supermarket, automobile or boat dealership, or any other estab

lishment with a common business area. It does

not

include a multiunit permanent or temporary dwelling where private home viewing

occurs, such as a hotel, dormitory, hospital, apartment, condominium, or prison.

• : Under the heading non-network stations, enter those stations’ call signs and the number of subscribers receiving those stations

on the last day of

each month

of the accounting period. Then, for each station, total the number of subscribers for all six months of the

accounting period and enter that ﬁgure under the column labeled total .

: Do not include subscribers receiving a non-network station retransmitted within that station’s local market. See page iii of the

instructions for the deﬁnition.

• : Compute the grand total number of subscribers receiving non-network stations.

non-network stations (commercial establishments)

       

Call signs

Month 1

(Jan/July)

Month 2

(Feb/Aug)

Month 3

(Mar/Sept)

Total

Month 6

(June/Dec)

Month 5

(May/Nov)

Month 4

(Apr/Oct)

Grand total non-network station subscribers (commercial establishments):

network stations (private home viewing)

       

Call signs

Month 1

(Jan/July)

Month 2

(Feb/Aug)

Month 3

(Mar/Sept)

Total

Month 6

(June/Dec)

Month 5

(May/Nov)

Month 4

(Apr/Oct)

Grand total network stations subscribers (private home viewing):

Give the legal name as it appears in space B:

 ,  3 · Computation of the Royalty and Filing Fees

The Copyright Royalty Board has published a cost-of-living adjustment to the applicable royalty rates. For details, see 84 FR 64206

(November 21, 2019).

1. Enter the grand total non-network stations for private home viewing

subscribers here and multiply by $0.30

.30

2. Enter the grand total network stations for private home viewing

subscribers here and multiply by $0.30

.30

3. Enter the grand total non-network stations for commercial establishments

subscribers here and multiply by $0.60

.60

4. Interest Charge. Enter the amount from line 4, space E, (page 5)

5. Filing Fee

725.00

6. Add lines 1–5. Total royalty and ling fees payable for accounting period

..................................................... $

Remit this amount in the form of an electronic payment payable to Register of Copyrights.

:

Royalty and ling fees must be paid by an electronic payment.

See page i of the instructions for more information.

 ,  5

Space E — Worksheet for Computing Interest

You must complete this worksheet for royalty fee payments submitted as a result of a late payment or underpayment. For an

explanation of interest assessment, see page iv of the instructions.

1. Enter the amount of late payment or underpayment

.............................................

2. Multiply line 1 by the interest rate*

and enter the sum here ..................................................................................................................................................................................................

days

3. Multiply line 2 by the number of days late

................................................................................................................................

.00274

4. Multiply line 3 by .00274**.

Enter the amount here (unless $5.00 or less) and on line 4,

space D, part 3, (page 5)

..............................................................................................................................................

(

interest charge

)

* To view the interest rate chart click on www.copyright.gov/licensing/interest-rate.pdf. For further assistance, contact the

Licensing Division at (202) 707-8150 or licensing@copyright.gov.

** This is the decimal equivalent of

⁄365, which is the interest assessment for one day late.

: If you are ﬁling this worksheet covering a statement of account already submitted to the Copyright Ofﬁce, list below the

owner, address, ID Number, and accounting period as given in the original ﬁling.





 

 

Give the legal name as it appears in space B:

 ,  6

Space F — Contact Information

Identify an individual we can contact about this statement of account:



 

  (  )

 ()

 ()

Space G — Signature

The statement of account must be signed in accordance with Copyright Ofﬁce regulations.

I, the undersigned Owner or Agent of the Satellite Carrier, or Ofﬁcer or Partner, if the Satellite Carrier is a corporation or partnership, have

examined this statement of account and hereby declare under penalty of law that all statements of fact contained herein are true, complete,

and correct to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, and are made in good faith.



/ 

/



Give the legal name as it appears in space B:

Privacy Act Notice: Section 119 of title 17 of the United States Code authorizes the Copyright Oce to collect the personally identifying information (PII) requested on this form in

order to process your statement of account. PII is any personal information that can be used to identify or trace an individual, such as name, address, and telephone numbers. By

providing PII, you are agreeing to the routine use of it to establish and maintain a public record, which includes appearing in the Oce’s public indexes and in search reports prepared

for the public. e eect of not providing the PII requested is that it may delay processing of your statement of account and its placement in the completed record of statements of

account, and it may aect the legal suciency of the ling, a determination that would be made by a court of law.

Instructions

Satellite Carriers and the Copyright Law

Satellite carriers are subject to copyright liability for their use

of copyrighted material when they make “secondary transmis-

sions” (retransmissions of television broadcasts) to the public

for private home viewing or for viewing in a commercial

establishment and they make a direct or indirect charge for

that service. Satellite carrier retransmissions of the copyrighted

programming embodied in the signals of non-network or net-

work stations are eligible under an optional system of statutory

licensing that is established in Section 119 of the Copyright

Act. A satellite carrier that chooses to obtain a statutory license

to retransmit the signals of non-network or network stations

for private home viewings or for viewing in a commercial es-

tablishment must deposit a statement of account and a royalty

fee with the Licensing Division of the Copyright Oce twice

a year.

How to File the Statement of Account, Royalty

and Filing Fees

First Study the information on these pages and the instruc-

tions in the statement of account form.

Second Fill out the statement of account form, giving all of

the required information about your satellite carrier

and about the television stations carried. Print the

information in dark ink. If you need more space, in-

dicate that a continuation sheet is attached and use a

blank page for that purpose.

Third

Certify the statement of account by signing at space G.

Fourth Make an electronic payment (see note below) pay-

able to Register of Copyrights in the amount you have

calculated in part 3 of space D to cover the copyright

royalty and ling fees. All fees must be paid by an

electronic deposit. See the Federal Register, August 10,

2006, 71

45739.

Fifth Send the completed statement of account, together

with one legible copy of the statement of account,

and all continuation sheets to Library of Congress,

Washington, DC 20557-6400. Couriers may deliver

to the Licensing Division in room 401 of the James

Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Con-

gress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC.

Sixth e Copyright Ofﬁce will retain your statement of

account and make it a part of its public records. You

should therefore keep a copy of the entire statement

as ﬁled in case you need it for further reference.

:

For detailed instructions concerning electronic

payments, contact the Licensing Division for Circular 74,

How

to Make Statutory License Royalty EFT Payments

, which is also

available at

www.copyright.gov/circs/circ74

e related statement of account must be ﬁled by the appro-

priate deadline. Statements of account and electronic funds

transfers received aer the ﬁling deadline are subject to interest

assessment.

How the Statutory License Works

In general, having a statutory license means that a satellite

carrier can retransmit the signals of non-network and, in some

instances, network stations without violating the copyright law

as long as the carrier complies with certain statutory require-

ments.

• e satellite carrier can, without negotiated licenses or ad-

vance permission from copyright owners, retransmit the

signals of any non-network station to members of the public

and retransmit the signals of any network station to persons

who reside in unserved households so long as the retrans-

mission is intended for private home viewing (except that

non-network stations may also be retransmitted for view-

ing in commercial establishments) and the carrier makes

a direct or indirect charge to each subscriber receiving the

signals (or to a distributor, in the case of a non-

network station).

• e satellite carrier must ﬁle semiannual statements of ac-

count with the Copyright Ofﬁce and must also deposit at

the same time semiannual royalty payments. e related

statement of account must be ﬁled by the appropriate dead-

line accompanied by a cover letter. e amount of the roy-

alty depends on the number of subscribers to each distant

broadcast signal retransmitted by the carrier each month.

e royalty must be paid by electronic payment payable to

• Any satellite carrier that retransmits the signals of a net-

work station to unserved households must, not later than

90 days aer commencing such retransmission, submit to

the network that owns or is afﬁliated with that station a list

identifying (by name and address, including street or rural

route number, city, state, and 9-digit zip code) all subscrib-

ers to that service. en, not later than the 15th of each

month, the satellite carrier must submit to the network a

list, aggregated by designated market area, so identifying

any persons who have been added or dropped as subscrib-

ers since the last list was submitted. e carrier should con-

tact the Licensing Division of the Copyright Ofﬁce to deter-

mine the name and address of the network contact person

to whom the subscriber lists should be submitted.

• e networks should submit to the Licensing Division of

the Copyright Ofﬁce the name and address of a contact per-

son to whom subscriber lists should be submitted by satel-

lite carriers that retransmit a signal of a station owned or

afﬁliated with that network.

,  i

,  ii

Why Having a Statutory License Is Important

Most television broadcasts contain copyrighted programming.

Without a statutory license, a satellite carrier that scrambles

the signal of a broadcast station and retransmits the signal

to subscribers for a fee either has to negotiate licenses for all

copyrighted programming it retransmits or risk substantial

civil (or, in some cases, criminal) liability for multiple acts of

Who Can Use the Section 119 Statutory License

Under the statute, the retransmission of a non-network station

is subject to statutory licensing only if it is made by a satellite

carrier to the public for private home viewing or for viewing in

a commercial establishment and the carrier makes a direct or

indirect charge to the subscriber or to a distributor of the

non-network station.

e retransmission of a network station is subject to statuto-

ry licensing under the same circumstances with the additional

requirement that the carrier must retransmit the network sta-

tion only to unserved households and the carrier must provide

local-into-local service to all DMAs (designated market areas).

However, subscribers who received secondary transmissions

of network stations from a carrier prior to December 20, 2019,

and who are no longer eligible to receive them under this

license, may continue to receive those secondary transmissions

from that carrier under the statutory license until the earlier of

(i) May 31, 2020, or (ii) the date on which the carrier provides

local-into-local service to all DMAs.

If a satellite carrier has contracted with a distributor to

market the carrier’s retransmission service to the viewing

public or otherwise act as an agent of the carrier, it is still the

responsibility of the satellite carrier (and not the distributor)

to obtain a statutory license for the retransmission service. If a

cable system engages in distributorship activities on behalf of a

satellite carrier, the cable system or distributor should segre-

gate the subscription fees collected on behalf of the satellite

carrier from those collected from cable subscribers pursuant to

the section 111 cable statutory license. e cable system should

only report in its section 111 statements of account the number

of cable subscribers served and the amount of gross receipts

collected pursuant to section 111 and should pay only royalties

pursuant to the requirements of section 111.

Deﬁnitions

• A satellite carrier is deﬁned as “an entity that uses the facili-

ties of a satellite or satellite service licensed by the Federal

Communications Commission and operates in the Fixed

Satellite Service under part 25 of title 47 of the Code of

Federal Regulations or the Direct Broadcast Satellite Service

under part 100 of title 47 of the Code of Federal Regula-

tions, to establish and operate a channel of communications

for point-to-multipoint distribution of television station

signals, and that owns or leases a capacity or service on a

satellite in order to provide such point-to-multipoint distri-

bution, except to the extent that such entity provides such

distribution pursuant to tari under the Communications

Act of 1934, other than for private home viewing pursuant

to this Section [119].”

• A non-network station is deﬁned as “a television station,

other than a network station, licensed by the Federal Com-

munications Commission that is secondarily transmitted by

a satellite carrier.”

• Private home viewing is deﬁned as “the viewing, for private

use in a household by means of satellite reception equip-

ment which is operated by an individual in that household

and which serves only such household, of a secondary

transmission delivered by a satellite carrier of a primary

transmission of a television station licensed by the Federal

Communications Commission.”

• A commercial establishment means an “establishment used

for commercial purposes, such as a bar, restaurant, private

ofﬁce, ﬁtness club, oil rig, retail store, bank or other ﬁnancial

institution, supermarket, automobile or boat dealership, or

any other establishment with a common business area;” and

“does not include a multiunit permanent or temporary

dwelling where private home viewing occurs, such as a hotel,

dormitory, hospital, apartment, condominium, or prison.”

• A subscriber is deﬁned as “a person or entity that receives

a secondary transmission service from a satellite carrier

and pays a fee for the service, directly or indirectly, to the

satellite carrier or to a distributor.”

• Subscribe means to “elect to become a subscriber.”

• Per subscriber per month means “each subscriber subscribing

to the station in question, or to a package including such

station, on the last day of a given month.”

• A network station is deﬁned as “(a) a television station

licensed by the Federal Communications Commission,

including any translator station or terrestrial satellite station

that rebroadcasts all or substantially all of the programming

broadcast by a network station, that is owned or operated by,

or afﬁliated with, one or more of the television networks in

the United States which oer an interconnected program

service on a regular basis for 15 or more hours per week to at

least 25 of its afﬁliated television licensees in 10 or more

States; or (b) a noncommercial educational broadcast

station (as deﬁned in section 397 of the Communications

Act of 1934).”

• A distributor is deﬁned as “an entity which contracts to

distribute secondary transmissions from a satellite carrier

and, either as a single channel or in a package with other

programming, provides the secondary transmission either

directly to individual subscribers or indirectly through

other program distribution entities in accordance with the

provisions of this Section [119].”

• e term unserved household means a household that

(A) is a recreational vehicle as dened in regulations of the

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under

section 3282.8 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations; or

a commercial motor truck under regulations of the Sec-

retary of Transportation under section 383.5 of title 49,

Code of Federal Regulations; or

(B) is a subscriber located in a short market.

•

e term short market means a local market in which pro-

gramming of one or more of the four most widely viewed

television networks nationwide is not oered on either the

primary stream or multicast stream transmitted by any

network station in that market or is temporarily or perma-

nently unavailable as a result of an act of God or other force

majeure event beyond the control of the carrier.

• e term local market, in the case of both commercial and

noncommercial television broadcast stations, is deﬁned as

“the designated market area in which a station is located,

and (i) in the case of a commercial television broadcast sta-

tion, all commercial television broadcast stations licensed

to a community within the same designated market area

are within the same local market; and (ii) in the case of a

noncommercial educational television broadcast station,

the market includes any station that is licensed to a com-

munity within the same designated market area as the non-

commercial educational television broadcast station.”

In addition, a station’s local market “includes the county in

which the station’s community of license is located.”

Regarding certain areas outside of any designated market

area, “any census area, borough, or other area in the state

of Alaska that is outside of a designated market area, as

determined by Nielsen Media Research, shall be deemed to

be part of one of the local markets in the state of Alaska. A

satellite carrier may determine which local market in the

state of Alaska will be deemed to be the relevant local mar-

ket in connection with each subscriber in such census area,

borough, or other area.”

•

e term designated market area means a “designated mar-

ket area, as determined by Nielsen Media Research and

published in the 1999-2000 Nielsen Station Index Directory

and Nielsen Station Index United States Television House-

hold Estimates or any successor publication.”

• An entity provides local-into-local service to all DMAs if the

entity provides local service in all designated market areas

(as such term is dened in section 122(j)(2)(C)) pursuant to

the license under section 122, except for designated market

areas where the entity is temporarily or permanently unable

to provide local service as a result of an act of God or other

force majeure event beyond the control of the entity.

• e term primary stream means “the single digital stream of

programming as to which a television broadcast station has

the right to mandatory carriage with a satellite carrier under

the rules of the Federal Communications Commission in

eect on July 1, 2009; or if there is no [such] stream then

either (i) the single digital stream of programming associ-

ated with the network last transmitted by the station as an

analog signal or (ii) if there is no stream described in clause

(i) then the single digital stream of programming aliated

with the network that, as of July 1, 2009, had been oered

by the television broadcast station for the longest period of

t i m e .”

• e term multicast stream means “a digital stream contain-

ing programming and program related material aliated

with a television network, other than the primary stream.”

: All Section 119 provisions and subsections are available at

www.copyright.gov/licensing/sec_119.html .

What a Statutory License Does Not

Permit You to Do

e statutory authority given to satellite carriers to retransmit

television broadcasts under a statutory license is limited in

several ways:

• Satellite carriers are not permitted to alter the content of

retransmitted programs; to change, delete, or substitute

commercials or station announcements in or adjacent to

programs being carried; or to combine the programs with

programming from any other broadcast signal.

• Satellite carriers are not permitted to retransmit signals to

subscribers that are not located in the United States (the

United States includes its territories, trust possessions, and

possessions).

Accounting Periods

e statute establishes two six-month accounting periods

for purposes of computing the royalty fee and reporting the

information called for in the statement of account. e ﬁrst

semiannual period runs from January through June of each

calendar year, and the second runs from July through Decem-

ber. You must use these accounting periods whether or not

they coincide with the beginning or ending of your satellite

carrier’s ﬁscal year.

:

If there were dierent owners during the accounting

period, only the owner on the last day of the accounting period

should submit a

single

statement of account and royalty and

ling fees payment covering the entire accounting period.

Filing Dates

Satellite carriers are given 30 days aer the close of each ac-

counting period in which to ﬁle their statements of account,

royalty and ling fees:

• For the January–June accounting period:

File between July 1 and July 30, inclusive.

• For the July–December accounting period:

File between January 1 and January 30, inclusive.

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Library of Congress · U.S. Copyright Ofﬁce · Licensing Division · 101 Independence Avenue SE · Washington, DC 20557 · www.copyright.gov

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Statements of account, royalty and ling fees received

before the end of the accounting period will not be accepted.

Statements and fees received aer the July 30 or January 30

deadlines will be accepted for whatever legal eect they may

have, if any. e Copyright Ofﬁce takes no position as to what

this eect will be, and a satellite carrier that ﬁles late runs a

substantial risk of copyright infringement.

: If July 30 or January 30 falls on a weekend or federal holi-

day, statements of account, royalty and ling fees may be led on

the next succeeding business day.

Interest Charges for Underpayments and

Late Payments

Underpayments or late payments received aer the ﬁling

deadline shall be subject to an interest assessment. Satellite car-

riers must calculate their own interest charge. (A work sheet is

provided at space E, page 5.) e interest rate set for a speciﬁc

accounting period is the U.S. Treasury Current Value of Funds

Rate in eect on the ﬁrst business day aer the close of the ﬁling

deadline for that accounting period. Satellite carriers can obtain

the interest rate for the applicable accounting period(s) at

www.copyright.gov/licensing/interest-rate.pdf or by contacting the

Licensing Division at (202) 707-8150 or licensing@copyright.gov.

For underpayments and late payments, the interest shall

begin to accrue on the ﬁrst day aer the close of the ﬁling date

for that accounting period. e accrual period ends on the

date that the remittance is received in the Copyright Oce.

: The Ofﬁce shall not require, nor notify a satellite carrier of,

an interest charge of $5.00 or less.

Refunds

In general, satellite carriers are given 30 days aer the close of

the ling period in which to request refunds.

• For the January–June accounting period:

File the refund request by August 29.

• For the July–December accounting period:

File the refund request by March 1.

For additional information regarding refund requests, see sec-

tion 201.11(h)(3)(i) of title 37 of the Code of Federal Regula-

tions available at www.copyright.gov/title37/201/index.html or

contact the Licensing Division.

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