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Licensing Division

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UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE

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Multicast versus Simulcast

Multicast is a digital stream of programming that is transmitted by a television broadcast station and is not the station’s

primary stream. Simulcast is a multicast stream of a television broadcast station that duplicates the programming

transmitted by the primary stream or another multicast stream of such station.

Photocopy Required

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

account to the Copyright Ofce.

Electronic Payment of Royalty Fees Required

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

74b, and 74c, which are available at www.copyright.gov/circs/circ74 or by contacting the Licensing Division (8:30 am

and 5:00 pm EST) by phone at (202) 707-8150, fax (202) 707-0905, or email licscal@loc.gov. The remittance must be

made payable to Register of Copyrights.

Remittance Advice Information

Federal regulations (C.F.R. Title 37 201.17 [i]) require that a remittance advice be attached to the statement(s) of

account, and a copy of the remittance advice be emailed or sent by facsimile to the Licensing Division. The Ofce uses

this remittance information to ensure the funds received via EFT are correctly allocated to each statement of account.

Filing an accurate advice (1) facilitates processing of your payments, (2) minimizes our contact or correspondence with

you, and (3) reduces administrative and other costs.

Convenient form at http://www.copyright.gov/licensing/remittance-advice.pdf.

Library of Congress

Copyright Ofce

Licensing Division

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington, DC 20557-6400

Tel: (202) 707-8150 (8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., EST) Fax: (202) 707-0905

Email: licensing@loc.gov or Web: www.copyright.gov/licensing

ATTENTION CABLE OPERATORS

Statutory Changes Affecting

Statements of Account

Statement of account (SOA) forms for cable op-

erators for the accounting period beginning on

January 1, 2010, have been revised to conform with

new statutory amendments pursuant to Section

104 of the Satellite Television Extension and Local-

ism Act of 2010 (

STELA), Public Law 111-175. The

SA-3 (Long Form) reflects the royalty rate adjust-

ments found in

STELA and includes modifications

to accommodate other changes in the law. These

changes are highlighted below.

Information on

STELA is available at www.

copyright.gov, and the new forms will be available

at www.copyright.gov/forms. The

SOAs are sub-

ject to further changes as the Office continues to

implement several sections of the new law.

rate changes.

The new base rate fees for carriage

of a distant signal are as follows:

First distant signal equivalent (

DSE): 0.01064

Second, third, and fourth

DSE: 0.00701

Additional

DSEs over four: 0.00330

However, no changes were made to the gross re-

ceipts threshold levels used to calculate the royalty

fees, the 3.75 percent fee, the syndicated exclusivity

surcharge, or the

SA1-2 (Short Form) royalty rates.

multicast streams.

Cable operators will also

have to begin reporting and paying for carriage of

certain distant multicast streams. For information

on how to calculate royalty fees for carriage of dis-

tant multicast streams, refer to page (v) of the

SA-3

general instructions. For further information, refer

to www.copyright.gov/licensing/multicasting. Dis-

tant multicast streams are not subject to the 3.75

percent fee or the syndicated exclusivity surcharge.

community-by-community reportings.

It is no

longer necessary to report television signals on a

system-wide basis. Carriage of television broadcast

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signals shall instead be reported on a community-

by-community basis (“subscriber groups”). Guid-

ance for reporting the carriage of television broad-

cast signals on a community-by-community basis

is provided on a revised Space D form and at the

back of the

SA-3 form (will be available at www.

copyright.gov/forms).

new definition of “local service area.”

The

statutory definition of the “local service area of a

primary transmitter” has been amended to include

the noise limited contour as an additional way to

determine the local or distant status of a digital

television signal and related multicast streams.

additional definitions.

The terms “primary

transmitter,” “primary stream,” “multicast stream”,

“simulcast”, “subscriber,” and “subscribe” have been

added. The definitions for distant signal equivalent,

network station, independent station, noncom-

mercial educational station, and primary transmis-

sion were amended. See the general instructions

for the definitions of newly added terms and the

amended definitions.

new additional deposit.

Section 111(d) has been

amended to provide the Copyright Office with

the authority to accept further deposits in lim-

ited instances from cable operators in addition to

payments made for the retransmission of distant

broadcast signals. Cable operators making addi-

tional deposits under the statute shall use a form

provided by the Copyright Office for this purpose.

If you did not receive the correct form, or if you

have any questions, please contact the Licensing

Division of the Copyright Office between 8:30 am

and 5:00 pm eastern time. tel: (202)707-8150, fax:

(202)707-0905, email: licensing@loc.gov.

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You are a click away from up-to-the

minute licensing updates.

NewsNet is a free electronic newsletter that

alerts subscribers to updates on licensing

regulations and procedures as well as forms

for compulsory and statutory licenses.

Here is how to subscribe to NewsNet:

• Go to the licensing information page

on the Copyright Office website at

www.copyright.gov/licensing and click

on the subscribe link.

or

• Use this link: www.copyright.gov/newsnet.

Have you subscribed

to NewsNet?

Have you tried pay.gov?

It's free

Pay.gov makes it easy and economical to make secure electronic

payments to the Register of Copyrights.

It's easy as 1-2-3

1.

If you are a registered user,

go directly to www.pay.gov

and log in.

If you are not already

registered, call (202)

707-8150 to establish an

account.

2.

Once you enter www.

pay.gov, click on Private

Forms under the Forms

list.

3.

Go to Royalty Fee

Collection to submit

your payment.

note:

Detailed instructions for using www.pay.

gov are available on the Copyright Office website

at www.copyright.gov/circs/circ74c.pdf.

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Return to:

Library of Congress

Copyright Ofce

Licensing Division

101 Independence Ave. SE

Washington, DC 20557-6400

(202) 707-8150

For courier deliveries,

see page ii of the general

instructions.

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for Secondary Transmissions

by Cable Systems

(

Short Form

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General instructions are at the

end of this form [pages (i) –(vii)].

FOR COPYRIGHT OFFICE USE ONLY

DATE RECEIVED

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already appear in space B. In line 2, give the mailing address of the system, if different from the address given in space B.

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(Number, street, rural route, apartment, or suite number)

(City, town, state, zip)

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CITY OR TOWN STATE

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 List each separate community served by the cable system. A “community” is the same as a “community unit” as deﬁned

in FCC rules: “a separate and distinct community or municipal entity (including unincorporated communities within unincorporated

areas and including single, discrete unincorporated areas).” 47 C.F.R. §76.5(dd). The ﬁrst community that you list will serve as a form

of system identiﬁcation hereafter known as the “ﬁrst community.” Please use it as the first community on all future lings.

Note: Entities and properties such as hotels, apartments, condominiums, or mobile home parks should be reported in parentheses below the

identiﬁed city.

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STATECITY OR TOWN

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AMOUNT

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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 Ofﬁce's public indexes and in

search reports prepared for the public. The effects 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 affect the legal sufﬁciency of the ﬁling, a determination that would be made by a court of law.

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Give the full legal name of the owner of the cable system in line 1. If the owner is a subsidiary of another corporation, give the full

corporate title of the subsidiary, not that of the parent corporation.

In line 2, list any other names under which the owner conducts the business of the cable system.

If there were different 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 fee payment covering the entire accounting period.

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Check here if this is the system’s ﬁrst ﬁling. If not, enter the system’s ID number assigned by the Licensing Division. __________

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1

2

3

(Number, street, rural route, apartment, or suite number)

(City, town, state, zip)

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

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January 1–June 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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July 1–December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(Year) (Year)

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LEGAL NAME OF OWNER OF CABLE SYSTEM:

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• Motel, hotel

• Commercial

• Pay cable

• Pay cable–add’l channel

• Fire protection

• Burglar protection

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• Reconnect

• Disconnect

• Outlet relocation

• Move to new address

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• Service to ﬁrst set

• Service to additional set(s)

• FM radio (if separate rate)

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• Residential

• Nonresidential

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 Space F calls for rate (not subscriber) information with respect to all your cable system’s services that were

not covered in space E, that is, those services that are not offered in combination with any secondary transmission service

for a single fee. There are two exceptions: you do not need to give rate information concerning (1) services furnished

at cost or (2) services or facilities furnished to nonsubscribers. Rate information should include both the amount of the

charge and the unit in which it is usually billed. If any rates are charged on a variable per-program basis, enter only the

letters “PP” in the rate column.

 Give the standard rate charged by the cable system for each of the applicable services listed.

 List any services that your cable system furnished or offered during the accounting period that were not

listed in block 1 and for which a separate charge was made or established. List these other services in the form of a

brief (two- or three-word) description and include the rate for each.

BLOCK 2

CATEGORY OF SERVICE

NO. OF

SUBSCRIBERS

BLOCK 1

BLOCK 2

CATEGORY OF SERVICE

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• Pay cable

• Pay cable–add’l channel

• Fire protection

• Burglar protection

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• First set

• Additional set(s)

• FM radio (if separate rate)

• Converter

RATE

BLOCK 1

RATECATEGORY OF SERVICERATE

RATE RATECATEGORY OF SERVICE

NO. OF

SUBSCRIBERS

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 The information in space E should cover all categories of secondary transmission service of the cable

system, that is, the retransmission of television and radio broadcasts by your system to subscribers. Give information

about other services (including pay cable) in space F, not here. All the facts you state must be those existing on the last

day of the accounting period (June 30 or December 31, as the case may be).

 Both blocks in space E call for the number of subscribers to the cable system, broken

down by categories of secondary transmission service. In general, you can compute the number of subscribers in each

category by counting the number of billings in that category (the number of persons or organizations charged separately

for the particular service at the rate indicated—not the number of sets receiving service).

 Give the standard rate charged for each category of service. Include both the amount of the charge and the

unit in which it is generally billed. (Example: “$8/mth”). Summarize any standard rate variations within a particular rate

category, but do not include discounts allowed for advance payment.

 In the left-hand block in space E, the form lists the categories of secondary transmission service that cable

systems most commonly provide to their subscribers. Give the number of subscribers and rate for each listed category

that applies to your system.  Where an individual or organization is receiving service that falls under different

categories, that person or entity should be counted as a subscriber in each applicable category. Example: a residential

subscriber who pays extra for cable service to additional sets would be included in the count under “Service to the ﬁrst

set,” and would be counted once again under “Service to additional set(s).”

 If your cable system has rate categories for secondary transmission service that are different from those

printed in block 1, (for example, tiers of services that include one or more secondary transmissions), list them, together

with the number of subscribers and rates, in the right-hand block. A two- or three-word description of the service is

sufﬁcient.

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LEGAL NAME OF OWNER OF CABLE SYSTEM:

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 In space G, identify every television station (including translator stations and low power television stations)

carried by your cable system during the accounting period,except (1) stations carried only on a part-time basis under

FCC rules and regulations in effect on June 24, 1981, permitting the carriage of certain network programs [sections

76.59(d)(2) and (4), 76.61(e)(2) and (4), or 76.63 (referring to 76.61(e)(2) and (4))]; and (2) certain stations carried on a

substitute program basis, as explained in the next paragraph.

 With respect to any distant stations carried by your cable system on a substitute program

basis under speciﬁc FCC rules, regulations, or authorizations:

• Do not list the station here in space G—but do list it in space I (the Special Statement Program Log)—if the station

was carried only on a substitute basis.

• List the station here, and also in space I, if the station was carried both on a substitute basis and also on some other

basis. For further information concerning substitute basis stations, see page (v) of the general instructions.

 List each station’s call sign. Do not report origination program services such as HBO, ESPN, etc. Identify

each multicast stream associated with a station according to its over-the-air designation. For example, report multicast

stream “WETA-2” as the same on the form. Simulcast stations must be reported in column 1 (list each station separately;

for example, WETA-2-simulcast).

 Give the channel number the FCC assigned to the television station for broadcasting over the air in its

community of license. For example, WRC is channel 4 in Washington, D.C.

 Indicate in each case whether the station is a network station, an independent station, or a noncommercial

educational station, by entering the letter “N” (for network), “N-M” (for network multicast), “I” (for independent), “I-M”

(for independent multicast), “E” (for noncommercial educational), or “E-M” (for noncommercial educational multicast).

For the meaning of these terms, see page (iv) of the general instructions.

 Give the location of each station. For U.S. stations, list the community to which the station is licensed by

the FCC. For Mexican or Canadian stations, if any, give the name of the community with which the station is identiﬁed.

1. CALL

SIGN

2. B’CAST

CHANNEL

NUMBER

3. TYPE

OF

STATION

4. LOCATION OF STATION

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



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

FORM SA1-2. PAGE 4.









LEGAL NAME OF OWNER OF CABLE SYSTEM:





 List every radio station carried on a separate and discrete basis and list those FM stations carried on an

all-band basis whose signals were generally receivable by your cable system during the accounting period.

 Under Copyright Ofﬁce regulations, an FM signal is generally

receivable if (1) it is carried by the system whenever it is received at the system’s headend; and (2) it can be expected, on

the basis of monitoring, to be received at the headend, with the system’s FM antenna, during certain stated intervals. For

detailed information about the the Copyright Ofﬁce regulations on this point, see page (iv) of the general instructions.

 Identify the call sign of each station carried.

 State whether the station is AM or FM.

 If the radio station’s signal was electronically processed by the cable system as a separate and discrete

signal, indicate this by placing a check mark in the “S/D” column.

 Give the station’s location (the community to which the station is licensed by the FCC or, in the case of

Mexican or Canadian stations, if any, the community with which the station is identiﬁed).

CALL SIGN AM or FM S/D LOCATION OF STATION CALL SIGN AM or FM S/D LOCATION OF STATION

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

LEGAL NAME OF OWNER OF CABLE SYSTEM:

FORM SA1-2. PAGE 5.

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











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

WHEN SUBSTITUTE

CARRIAGE OCCURRED

7. REASON

FOR

DELETION

1. TITLE OF PROGRAM

2. LIVE?

Yes or No

3. STATION’S

CALL SIGN 4. STATION’S LOCATION

5. MONTH

AND DAY

6. TIMES

FROM — TO

SUBSTITUTE PROGRAM

—



 In space I, identify every nonnetwork television program, broadcast by a distant station, that your cable

system carried on a substitute basis during the accounting period, under speciﬁc present and former FCC rules, regula-

tions, or authorizations. For a further explanation of the programming that must be included in this log, see page (v) of

the general instructions.



• During the accounting period, did your cable system carry, on a substitute basis, any nonnetwork television program

broadcast by a distant station?

■   ■

 If your answer is “No,” leave the rest of this page blank. If your answer is “Yes,” you must complete the program

log in block 2.



 List each substitute program on a separate line. Use abbreviations wherever possible, if their meaning is

clear. If you need more space, please attach additional pages.

 Give the title of every nonnetwork television program (“substitute program”) that, during the accounting

period, was broadcast by a distant station and that your cable system substituted for the programming of another station

under certain FCC rules, regulations, or authorizations. See page (v) of the general instructions for further information.

Do not use general categories like “movies” or “basketball.” List speciﬁc program titles, for example, “I Love Lucy” or

“NBA Basketball: 76ers vs. Bulls.”

 If the program was broadcast live, enter “Yes”. Otherwise, enter “No.”

 Give the call sign of the station broadcasting the substitute program.

 Give the broadcast station’s location (the community to which the station is licensed by the FCC or, in

the case of Mexican or Canadian stations, if any, the community with which the station is identiﬁed).

 Give the month and day when your system carried the substitute program. Use numerals, with the month

ﬁrst. Example: for May 7, give “5/7.”

 State the times when the substitute program was carried by your cable system. List the times accurately

to the nearest ﬁve minutes. Example: a program carried by a system from 6:01:15 p.m. to 6:28:30 p.m. should be stated

as “6:00–6:30 p.m.”

 Enter the letter “R” if the listed program was substituted for programming that your system was required

to delete under FCC rules and regulations in effect during the accounting period; enter the letter “P” if the listed program

was substituted for programming that your system was permitted to delete under FCC rules and regulations in effect

on October 19, 1976.

—

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K









FORM SA1-2. PAGE 6.

LEGAL NAME OF OWNER OF CABLE SYSTEM:



1. Base amount under statutory formula

2. Enter amount of gross receipts from space K

3. Subtract line 2 from line 1

4. Enter the amount of gross receipts from space K

5. Enter the amount from line 3

6. Subtract line 5 from line 4

7. Multiply line 6 by .005 (enter ﬁgure here)

8. Interest charge. Enter the amount from line 4, space Q, page 8

As a cable system with gross receipts of $137,100 or less, the royalty fee that you must pay for this six-month

accounting period is $52.00

Line 1. Royalty fee for accounting period

Line 2. Interest charge. Enter the amount from line 4, space Q, page 8



 To compute the royalty fee you owe:

• Complete block 1, block 2, or block 3

• Use block 1 if the amount of gross receipts in space K is $137,100 or less

• Use block 2 if the amount of gross receipts in space K is more than $137,100 but less than or equal to $263,800

• Use block 3 if the amount of gross receipts in space K is more than $263,800 but less than $527,600

See page (vi) of the general instructions for more information.



 The ﬁgure you give in this space determines the form you ﬁle and the amount you pay. Enter the total of

all amounts (gross receipts) paid to your cable system by subscribers for the system’s secondary transmission service

(as identiﬁed in space E) during the accounting period. For a further explanation of how to compute this amount, see

page (vi) of the general instructions.

• Gross receipts from subscribers for secondary transmission service(s)

during the accounting period.

 You must complete a statement in space P concerning gross receipts.

(Amount of gross receipts)

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

$

 Your remittance must be in the form of an electronic payment payable to Register of Copyrights. See page i of the

general instructions for more information.

BLOCK 1: GROSS RECEIPTS OF $137,100 OR LESS

Line 3.  Add lines 1 and 2

BLOCK 2: GROSS RECEIPTS OF $263,800 OR LESS (but more than $137,100)

BLOCK 3: GROSS RECEIPTS OF MORE THAN $263,800 (but less than $527,600)

1. Enter the amount of gross receipts from space K

2. Base amount under statutory formula

3. Subtract line 2 from line 1

4. Multiply line 3 by .01

5. Royalty due on the ﬁrst $263,800 of gross receipts (under statutory formula)

6. Interest Charge. Enter the amount from line 4, space Q, page 8

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

$







7. . Add lines 4, 5, and 6

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











FORM SA1-2. PAGE 7.

O

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

 You must give (1) the number of channels on which the cable system carried television broadcast stations

to its subscribers, and (2) the cable system’s total number of activated channels during the accounting period.

1. Enter the total number of channels on which the cable

system carried television broadcast stations.

2. Enter the total number of activated

channels on which the cable system carried television broadcast stations

and nonbroadcast services.

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

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

 (Identify an individual to whom

we can write or call about this statement of account.)

Telephone

Name

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

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

(Area code)

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

Address

(Number, street, rural route, apartment, or suite number)

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

(City, town, state, zip)

 (This statement of account must be certiﬁed and signed in accordance with Copyright Ofﬁce regula-

tions, as explained in the general instructions.)

• I, the undersigned, hereby certify that (Check one, but only one, of the boxes.)

■  I am the owner of the cable system as identiﬁed in line 1 of

space B; or

■  I am the duly authorized agent of the owner of the

cable system as identiﬁed in line 1 of space B, and that the owner is not a corporation or partnership; or

■ I am an ofﬁcer (if a corporation) or a partner (if a partnership) of the legal entity identiﬁed as

owner of the cable system in line 1 of space B.

• I have examined the statement of account and hereby declare under penalty of law that all statements of fact con-

tained herein are true, complete, and correct to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, and are made in

good faith. [18 U.S.C., Section 1001(1986)]

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

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

Handwritten signature:

Typed or printed name:

Title:

Date:

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

Email (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(Title of ofﬁcial position held in corporation or partnership)

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

 Section 111 of title 17 of the United States Code authorizes the Copyright Ofﬁce 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 Ofﬁce's public indexes and in

search reports prepared for the public. The effects 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 affect the legal sufﬁciency of the ﬁling, a determination that would be made by a court of law.

LEGAL NAME OF OWNER OF CABLE SYSTEM:



FORM SA1-2. PAGE 8.

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







Q

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

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

Line 1. Enter the amount of late payment or underpayment

Line 2. Multiply line 1 by the interest rate* and enter the sum here



The Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988 amended Title 17, section 111(d)(1)(A), of the Copyright Act by adding the fol-

lowing sentence:

“In determining the total number of subscribers and the gross amounts paid to the cable system for the basic

service of providing secondary transmissions of primary broadcast transmitters, the system shall not include sub-

scribers and amounts collected from subscribers receiving secondary transmissions pursuant to section 119.”

For more information on when to exclude these amounts, see the note on page (vi) of the general instructions.

During the accounting period, did the cable system exclude any amounts of gross receipts for secondary transmissions

made by satellite carriers to satellite dish owners?

■ NO

■ YES. Enter the total here and list the satellite carrier(s) below. .................................... $



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

For an explanation of interest assessment, see page (vii) of the general instructions.

Line 3. Multiply line 2 by the number of days late and enter the sum here

Line 4, Multiply line 3 by .00274** and enter here and in space L (page 6) block 1,

line 2, or block 2, line 8, or block 3, line 6

$

x

x .00274

(interest charge)

Name

Mailing address

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

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

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

Name

Mailing address

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

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

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

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

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

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

%

days

*

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

contact the Licensing Division at (202) 707-8150 or licensing@loc.gov.

**This is the decimal equivalent of 1/365, 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, please

list below the owner, address, ﬁrst community served, ID number, and accounting period as given in the original ﬁling.

Owner ...............................................................................................................................................................................

Address ............................................................................................................................................................................

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

ID number .........................................................................................................................................................................

First community served ....................................................................................................................................................

Accounting period ............................................................................................................................................................

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

 Section 111 of title 17 of the United States Code authorizes the Copyright Ofﬁce 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 Ofﬁce's public indexes and in

search reports prepared for the public. The effects 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 affect the legal sufﬁciency of the ﬁling, a determination that would be made by a court of law.

LEGAL NAME OF OWNER OF CABLE SYSTEM:



stream and any multicast streams transmitted by the sta-

tion constitute primary transmissions.

•  A secondary transmission

is the basic service of retransmitting television and radio

broadcasts to subscribers. The statute requires all U.S.

cable systems, regardless of how many subscribers they

have or whether they are carrying any distant signals, to

pay some copyright royalties. However, instead of oblig-

ing cable systems to bargain individually for each copy-

righted program they retransmit, the law offers them the

opportunity of obtaining a statutory license for secondary

transmissions.

 Secondary transmissions do not include trans-

missions originated by a cable system (including local

origination cablecasting, pay cable, program services,

background music services, and originations on leased

or access channels). Cable systems must negotiate for

the use of any copyrighted material in the programming

they originate, and their originations are not subject to

statutory licensing.





 Study the general information on these pages and read

through the detailed instructions in the statement of ac-

count form itself. Before you start completing the form,

make sure that you have collected all the necessary in-

formation and that you are using the right form.

 Fill out the statement of account form, giving all the re-

quired information about your cable system and about

the television and radio stations carried by it. Print the

information in black ink.

 Certify the statement of account by signing at space

O. The statement of account is not acceptable unless

it bears the original handwritten signature of one of the

persons indicated in space O as authorized to certify it

under Copyright Ofﬁce regulations.

 Make an electronic payment (see note below) in the

amount you have calculated in space L to cover the



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



Cable systems are subject to copyright liability for their use

of copyrighted material in secondary transmissions (the re-

transmission of television and radio broadcasts to subscrib-

ers). Cable retransmissions of copyrighted programming

are subject to a system of statutory licensing. Among other

things, this means that twice a year the owner of a cable

system must send a statement of account, together with a

royalty fee, to the Licensing Division of the Copyright Ofﬁce.



A primary stream is the single digital stream

of programming that, before June 12, 2009, was substantially

duplicating the programming transmitted by the television

broadcast station as an analog signal. If there is no stream,

then the primary stream is the single digital stream of pro-

gramming transmitted by the television broadcast station

for the longest period of time.

A primary transmitter is a television

or radio broadcast station licensed by the Federal Commu-

nications Commission, or by an appropriate governmental

authority of Canada or Mexico, that makes primary trans-

missions to the public.

The term subscriber means a person or entity

that receives a secondary transmission service from a cable

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

to the cable system.

The term subscribe means to elect to become

a subscriber.

In providing copyright liability for cable systems, the law

draws a distinction between “primary transmissions” and

“secondary transmissions”:

•  A primary transmission is a

transmission made to the public by a transmitting facility

whose signals are being received and further transmitted

by a secondary transmission service, regardless of where

or when the performance or display was ﬁrst transmitted.

In the case of a television broadcast station, the primary







• You are the owner (or represent the owner) of a cable system; and

• You are ﬁling the semiannual statement of account required by the copyright law; and

• Your system’s semiannual gross receipts for secondary transmissions (the ﬁgure you give in space K of the form) is less than

$527,600; and

• You are also depositing the required semiannual royalty fee with the Licensing Division of the Copyright Ofﬁce.



GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS, FORM SA1-2, PAGE (ii).

ming it transmits or run the risk of substantial civil (or, in

some cases, criminal) liability for multiple acts of copyright

infringement.



Under the statute and Copyright Ofﬁce regulations, retrans-

missions are subject to statutory licensing only if they are

made by cable systems.

 A “cable system” is deﬁned as “a facility,

located in any State, territory, trust territory, or possession

of the United States, that in whole or in part receives signals

transmitted or programs broadcast by one or more television

broadcast stations licensed by the Federal Communications

Commission, and makes secondary transmissions of such

signals or programs by wires, cables, microwave, or other

communications channels to subscribing members of the

public who pay for such service.” A system that meets this

deﬁnition is considered a cable system for copyright pur-

poses, even if the FCC excludes it from being considered a

cable system because of the number or nature of its sub-

scribers or the nature of its secondary transmissions.

 An individual cable system is

deﬁned generally as “each cable system recognized as a

distinct entity under the rules, regulations, and practices

of the Federal Communications Commission.” In addition,

two or more cable facilities are considered as one individual

cable system if either: (A) the facilities are in contiguous

communities and are under common ownership or control;

or (B) the facilities operate from one headend. Thus, even if

they are owned by different entities, two cable facilities will

be considered as one individual cable system if they share

a common headend.





The statutory authority given to cable systems to retransmit

television and radio broadcasts under a statutory license is

limited in several ways:

•  To repeat: a cable system’s statutory li-

cense extends only to secondary transmissions (retrans-

missions). It does not permit the system to make any

originations of copyrighted material without a negotiated

license covering that material.

•  In general, to be

subject to statutory licensing under the copyright law,

a cable retransmission must be simultaneous with the

broadcast being carried. As a rule, taping or other record-

ing of the program is not permitted. Taping for delayed

transmission is permissible only for some (not all) cable

systems located outside the 48 contiguous states; and,

even in these exceptional cases, there are further limita-

tions and conditions that the cable system must meet.

•  The broadcast signals that a cable sys-

tem can carry under a statutory license are limited to those

that it is permitted to carry under FCC rules, regulations,

copyright royalty fee. See the Federal Register, August

10, 2006 (71 FR 45739) available at www.copyright.gov/

fedreg/2006/71fr45739.html. The remittance should be

payable to Register of Copyrights.

 Send the completed statement of account and one legible

copy of the statement of account to:

Library of Congress

Copyright Ofce

Licensing Division

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington, DC 20557-6400

For courier deliveries, see www.copyright.gov/mail.

html for updated information.

 Pages that consist solely of instructions do not need

to be submitted.

 The Copyright Ofﬁce will retain your statement of account

and make it a part of our public records. You should,

therefore, keep a copy of the entire statement, as ﬁled,

in case you need it for future reference.

 For detailed instructions concerning electronic pay-

ments, contact the Licensing Division for Circular 74, which

is also available at www.copyright.gov ⁄ circs ⁄ circ74.



In general, having a statutory license means that a cable

system can retransmit broadcast programming without vio-

lating the copyright law, as long as it complies with certain

paperwork requirements and, twice a year, deposits a royalty

fee with the Copyright Ofﬁce.

• The cable system can, without negotiated licenses or

advance permission from copyright owners, retransmit

the signals of any U.S. television or radio station that it

is authorized to carry under FCC rules, regulations, or

authorizations (plus Mexican or Canadian stations in cer-

tain cases); and

• The cable system must ﬁle statements of account with the

Copyright Ofﬁce and must also deposit a semiannual roy-

alty. The amount of the royalty, which is established under

a statutory formula, depends on the total of the system’s

gross receipts for secondary transmission service.

• Every six months, the cable system must send the Copy-

right Ofﬁce a statement of account on this form, SA1-2

(Short Form), or on SA3 (Long Form) (if the gross receipts

are $527,600 or more).

• Each semiannual statement of account must be accom-

panied by the deposit of a royalty fee covering retransmis-

sions during the preceding six months in the form of an

electronic payment payable to Register of Copyrights.



Most television and radio broadcasts contain copyrighted

material. Without a statutory license, a cable system would

either have to negotiate licenses for all copyrighted program-

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS, FORM SA1-2, PAGE (iii).

and authorizations. If signal carriage is in violation of FCC

requirements, the cable system may be subject under the

Copyright Act to a separate action for copyright infringe-

ment for each unauthorized retransmission.

•  In general, the copyright law does not

permit a cable system to retransmit signals of foreign

television and radio stations under a statutory license.

The only exceptions have to do with the signals of certain

Mexican and Canadian stations. Unless foreign signals

fall within these exceptions, their carriage would not be

authorized under a statutory license, even if permissible

under FCC rules.

•  Ca-

ble systems are not permitted to alter the content of re-

transmitted programs, or to change, delete, or substitute

commercials or station announcements in or adjacent

to programs being carried. There is only one exception:

under certain circumstances, substitutions involving com-

mercial advertising market research may be permitted.



The 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. The ﬁrst

semiannual period runs from January through June, and

the second from July through December, of each calendar

year. You must use these accounting periods whether or not

they coincide with the beginning or ending of your cable

system’s ﬁscal year.



Cable systems are given 60 days after the close of each ac-

counting period in which to ﬁle their statements of account

and royalty fees. The following are the two ﬁling dates you

must observe each year:

• For the January–June accounting period: File between

July 1 and August 29, inclusive;

• For the July–December accounting period: File between

January 1 and March 1, inclusive.

 If August 29 or March 1 falls on a weekend or federal

holiday, statements of account and royalty fees may be made

on the next succeeding business day.

Statements of account and royalty fees received before

the end of the accounting period will not be accepted. State-

ments and fees received after the August 29 or March 1

deadlines will be accepted for whatever legal effect they

may have, if any. The Copyright Ofﬁce takes no position as

to what this effect will be, and a cable system that ﬁles late

runs a substantial risk.



Refund requests must be received within 60 days after the

close of the ﬁling period (by April 30 or October 28). Also,

refund requests for late and amended payments must be

received before the expiration of 60 days from the date of

receipt at the Copyright Ofﬁce of the royalty payment that is

the subject of the request. The Debt Collection Improvement

Act of 1996 requires that refunds be made through electronic

funds transfer (EFT).  Late payments are subject to

interest assessment. See page (vi) of the general instructions.

Contact the Licensing Division for additional information.



For purposes of computing the semiannual royalty fee a cable

system must pay, the statute creates three brackets, depend-

ing upon the system’s gross receipts from subscribers for

secondary transmissions during the accounting period:

  royalty fee of $52;

 

 royalty fee determined by a formula based on

percentage of gross receipts;

  royalty fee de-

termined by a formula based on percentage of gross re-

ceipts and on the number of distant stations carried by

the system.

A cable system is required to deposit its semiannual roy-

alty fee with the Copyright Ofﬁce at the time it ﬁles each

statement of account. The royalty must be made by elec-

tronic payment, and the related statement of account must

be ﬁled by the appropriate deadline accompanied with a

cover letter (see circulars 74a, 74b, and 74c ).The Copyright

Ofﬁce transfers these fees into a special fund, which is later

distributed to copyright owners as payment for the use of

their works by cable systems.



The law requires a cable system to ﬁle statements of account

for two purposes:

• To show the basis for the semiannual royalty fee the cable

system owes under its statutory license; and

• To give the information needed to allocate royalty fees

among copyright owners.

Thus, some of the information you give on your statement

of account has nothing to do with computing your gross

receipts or deciding the amount of your royalty fee. Never-

theless, you are required to give the additional information in

order to provide the basis for the second phase of the statu-

tory license: the distribution of fees to copyright owners.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS, FORM SA1-2, PAGE (iv).





• As long as a cable system keeps its statutory license

in force by complying with the requirements of the

new copyright law, it is not obliged to negotiate

individual copyright licenses for retransmission of

television and radio broadcasts.

• The following are among the various ways a cable

system can lose its statutory license: by failing

to ﬁle the statements of account or royalty fees;

by taping for delayed retransmission; by carrying

signals in violation of FCC requirements; by car-

riage of certain foreign stations; and by altering

programs or substituting commercials.

• Without a statutory license, a cable system can

be sued by a copyright owner for the full range

of civil remedies for copyright infringement, in-

cluding injunctions, actual damages and proﬁts, or

statutory damages (of up to $150,000 in cases of

willful infringement). The statute also provides for

criminal penalties in cases of willful infringements

for commercial purposes.





All of the information you give in a statement of account must

be an accurate presentation of the facts existing during the

accounting period covered by that statement (or, in certain

cases, on the last day of that period).

•  List all areas served, stations

carried, and certain substitute programs carried at any

time during the accounting period.

•  You should report the total of gross

receipts attributable to the particular accounting period

in space K. The ﬁgures requested in space M should be

the appropriate totals of channels for the entire period.

•  This space (part-time carriage log) has been

deleted.

•  Even if items of information con-

cerning the owner, system, subscribers, or rates have

changed during the accounting period, your statement of

account does not need to reect the change. Give only the

facts existing on the last day of the accounting period. If

there were different 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

fee payment covering the entire accounting period.



Stations Actually Carried.Make sure that space G lists all

the television stations your system actually carried at any

time during the accounting period (except as explained in

space G of the form). Do not list stations that were not in fact

carried during that period, even if the FCC has authorized

their carriage, and even if they were carried during earlier

accounting periods.

Low Power Television Stations. The Copyright Act in sec-

tion 111(f) delineates the local status of a low power televi-

sion station as follows: “In the case of a low power televi-

sion station, as deﬁned by the rules and regulations of the

Federal Communications Commission, the ‘local service

area of a primary transmitter’ comprises the area within 35

miles of the transmitter site, except that in the case of such

a station located in a standard metropolitan statistical area

which has one of the 50 largest populations of all standard

metropolitan statistical areas (based on the 1980 decennial

census of population taken by the Secretary of Commerce),

the number of miles shall be 20 miles.” This means that a low

power television station carried by a cable system within an

area as deﬁned above will be considered “local.”

Translator Stations. Translator stations must be listed.

For Copyright purposes, a translator station is a primary

transmitter not only of any programs it originally transmits

but also of all the programming it receives from its parent

station and retransmits. Thus, if your cable system carried

signals emanating from a translator station, you must list the

translator station in space G. And, if your system separately

carried signals from both a translator station and its parent

station, both the translator and the parent station should

be identiﬁed.

  Note that for any translator

station listed in space G, the type of station indicated in

column 3 should be that of the parent station.

Multicast stream. A multicast stream is a digital stream of

programming that is transmitted by a television broadcast

station and is not the station’s primary stream.

Simulcast. A simulcast is a multicast stream of a television

broadcast station that duplicates the programming trans-

mitted by the primary stream or another multicast stream

of such station.

Denitions of Types of Stations. Under the Copyright Act,

the terms used in connection with column 3 of space G

mean the following:

•  A primary stream of a television broad-

cast station that is owned or operated by, or afﬁliated with,

one or more of the television networks in the United States

providing nationwide transmissions, and that transmits

a substantial part of the programming supplied by such

networks for a substantial part of the primary stream’s

typical broadcast day.

The term network station also applies to a multicast

stream on which a television broadcast station transmits

all or substantially all of the programming of an intercon-

nected program service that is owned or operated by,

or afﬁliated with, one or more of the television networks

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS, FORM SA1-2, PAGE (v)

statement of account, logs showing the times, dates, sta-

tions, and programs involved in any nonnetwork television

programming that was carried in whole or in part beyond

the local service area of the primary transmitter, under rules,

regulations, or authorizations of the FCC permitting the sub-

stitution or addition of signals under certain circumstances.

The applicable present and former rules and regulations are

identiﬁed in item 3, which follows.

What Programs Must Be Listed. You must list a program

in space I if all three of the following conditions apply:

  A

“nonnetwork television program” is a program that was

not being broadcast by a station as part of a network tele-

vision broadcast at the time the cable system carried it.

  A

“distant station” is a television station carried by a cable

system in whole or in part beyond that station’s local

service area. A television station’s local service area is the

area within which the station is entitled to insist upon its

signal being retransmitted by a cable system pursuant to

rules, regulations, and authorizations of the FCC in effect

on April 15, 1976. Effective on July 1, 1994, a station’s

local service area also includes the station’s television

market as deﬁned in section 76.55(e) of title 47, Code of

Federal Regulations (as in effect on September 18, 1993),

or any modiﬁcations to such television market made on

or after September 18, 1993, pursuant to section 76.55(e)

or 76.59 of title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

 





• Where FCC rules and regulations in effect on the date

of carriage require the deletion of certain programming

of one station and permit substitution of programming

from another distant station. That is, if a cable system is

required to delete a station because of the FCC sports

exclusivity rules.

• Where the FCC rules, regulations and authorizations in

effect on October 19, 1976, permit a cable system at its

option, to delete programming, and authorize the system

to substitute programming from another distant station.

That is, if the cable system elects to delete a distant sta-

tion while that station is broadcasting a program primarily

of local interest to the distant community, for copyright

purposes former FCC rules sections 76.61(b) (2) and 76.63

(incorporating 76.61(b) (2)) continue to authorize the sta-

tion to substitute the programming of any other distant

station.



1 The provisions of the Copyright Act dealing with volun-

tary deletion and substitution of programs are limited to

programs substituted under FCC rules, regulations, and

authorizations in effect on October 19, 1976.

described above and offers programming on a regular

basis for 15 or more hours per week to at least 25 of

the afﬁliated television licensees of the interconnected

program service in 10 or more states.

•  A primary stream or a multicast

stream of a television broadcast station that is not a net-

work station or a noncommercial educational station. For

purposes of determining a station’s type-value this cate-

gory includes all specialty, Canadian and Mexican stations.

•  A primary stream

or a multicast stream of a television broadcast station that

is a noncommercial educational broadcast station; which

is owned and operated by a public agency or nonproﬁt

private foundation, corporation or association; or owned

an operated by a municipality and which transmits only

noncommercial programs for education purposes.



All-Band Carriage. If your system carried FM radio stations

on an all-band basis, you are not required to list every sta-

tion that subscribers might possibly have received during

the accounting period. Instead, Copyright Ofﬁce regulations

require you to monitor your FM transmission service at your

system’s headend from time to time during the accounting

period and to report the generally receivable FM stations

identiﬁed as a result of your monitoring.

Stations Generally Receivable. There are two standards for

determining whether an FM station is generally receivable:

1 Is the station usually carried whenever it is received at

your system’s headend; and

2 Can the station be expected to be received at the headend,

with your system’s FM antenna, at least three consecutive

hours each day at the same time each day, ﬁve or more

days a week, for four or more weeks during any calendar

quarter, with a strength of not less than 50 microvolts

per meter measured at the foot of the tower or pole to

which the antenna is attached?

The monitoring arrangements you set up should be aimed

at determining what stations can reasonably be expected

to meet these standards.

Monitoring Activities. It is not necessary to monitor con-

tinuously throughout the accounting period, and you are not

required to make precise measurements to determine which

stations in fact meet the technical standards and which do

not. Your monitoring activities should take place periodi-

cally at your headend during the accounting period and you

should use a good FM receiver.





Substitute Programs Must Be Logged and Reported.The

Copyright Act requires all cable systems to submit, with their

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS, FORM SA1-2, PAGE (vi)

2 Effective January 1, 1990, the FCC amended Parts 73

and 76 of its rules relating to program exclusivity in the

cable and broadcast industries.



What Are Gross Receipts? The gross receipts you enter in

space K are the receipts for the basic service of providing

secondary transmissions of primary broadcast transmitters.

They include the full amount of monthly (or other periodic)

service fees for any and all services or tiers of services that

include one or more secondary transmissions of television

or radio broadcast signals, for additional set fees, and for

converter fees. All such gross receipts shall be aggregated

and the royalty fee calculations shall be made against the ag-

gregated amount. Gross receipts for secondary transmission

services do not include installation (including connection,

relocation, disconnection or reconnection) fees; separate

charges for security, alarm, or facsimile services; charges

for late payments; or charges for pay cable or other program

origination services provided that the origination services

are not offered in combination with secondary transmission

service for a single fee.





• The Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988, Public Law 100-

667, as amended by Public Law 103-369, Public Law

106-113, Public Law 108-447, and Public Law 111-175,

establishes a statutory license for certain secondary trans-

missions made by satellite carriers to satellite dish owners.

Satellite carriers are subject to copyright liability for their

use of copyrighted material when they make secondary

“transmissions” (retransmissions of television broadcasts)

to satellite dish owners 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 network stations are eligible under an

operational system of statutory licensing that is estab-

lished in section 119 of the Copyright Act.

• A satellite carrier is deﬁned in the Satellite Home Viewer

Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 as “an entity

that uses the facilities 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 Regulations, to establish and oper-

ate 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 pro-

vide such point-to-multipoint distribution, except to the

extent that such entity provides such distribution pursuant

to tariff under the Communications Act of 1934, other than

for private home viewing pursuant to Section 119.”

• As provided in the Satellite Home Viewer Act [amend-

ment of section 111(d)(1)(A)], any amounts collected by

a cable system/distributor from subscribers should be

excluded from the cable system’s determination of gross

receipts received for the basic service of providing sec-

ondary transmissions of primary broadcast transmitters

pursuant to the cable statutory license, section 111 (c)

to (f). This provision contemplates the situation where

the same entity may be offering both satellite and cable

distribution of secondary transmissions of primary broad-

cast transmitters.

• If a cable system offers both satellite and cable services to

satellite dish owners, then it may exclude those amounts

attributed to the satellite service under section 119 of the

act. Such a system should declare on page 8 the amount

of gross receipts that are excluded for this service and list

the name and address of each satellite carrier in which

the system has contracted as a distributor or agent to

market the carrier’s retransmissions service. The system

should also maintain separate records of the subscriber

fees received for satellite carrier retransmissions.

Accrual Basis. If your revenue accounts are kept on an

accrual basis, the ﬁgure you give in space K should be the

total of all gross receipts for secondary transmission ser-

vice accrued for the accounting period. Subtract bad debts

actually written off during the period and add previously

written-off debts that were actually recovered during the

period. (However, do not make adjustments for bad debts

for secondary transmission service furnished before Janu-

ary 1, 1978.)

Cash Basis. If your revenue accounts are kept on a cash basis,

your gross receipts are all amounts actually received during

the accounting period for secondary transmission service.





For cable systems whose semiannual gross receipts are un der

$527,600, the method of calculating the royalty fee depends

on the amount of gross receipts reported in space K.

 If the ﬁgure you give

in space K is $137,100 or less, your royalty fee has been

calculated for you in accordance with the formula set out in

section 111(d)(2)(C) of the Copyright Act as adjusted. The

amount is $52. Do not use blocks 2 and 3.



 If the ﬁgure you give in space K is more

than $137,100 but less than or equal to $263,800, your

royalty fee must be calculated in accordance with the for-

mula set out in section 111(d)(2)(C) of the Copyright Act, as

adjusted. Follow the step-by-step calculations in block 2 of

space L. Do not use blocks 1 and 3.



If your gross receipts ﬁgure in space K is more

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS, FORM SA1-2, PAGE (vii)

than $263,800 but less than $527,600, you must use the

formula set out in section 111(d)(2)(D) of the Copyright Act,

as adjusted. Follow the step-by-step calculations in block

3 of space L. Do not use blocks 1 and 2.





Underpayments or late payments received after the ﬁling

deadline shall be subject to an interest assessment. Cable

systems must calculate their own interest charge. (A work-

sheet is provided at space Q, page 8.) The interest rate set

for a speciﬁc accounting period is the U.S. Treasury Current

Value of Funds Rate in effect on the ﬁrst business day after

the close of the ﬁling deadline for that accounting period.

Cable systems can obtain the interest rate for the applicable

accounting period(s) by calling the Licensing Division at (202)

707-8150, or

by clicking on to www.copyright.gov/licensing/

interest-rate.pdf.

For underpayments and late payments the interest shall

begin to accrue on the ﬁrst day after the close of the ﬁling

date for that accounting period. The accrual period ends

on the date that the remittance is received in the Copyright

Ofﬁce. Note: The Ofﬁce shall not require, nor notify a cable

system of, an interest charge of $5.00 or less.

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