Cable and Satellite Carrier Compulsory Licenses: An Overview and Analysis

摘要

The report relates to the cable and satellite carrier compulsory licenses. Thereport provides an extensive historical background to both licenses to put them in context, it tackles the changes and developments and the day-to-day operations, and it makes a few predictions relative to both the cable and satellite licenses. Contents: Part one--The cable compulsory license and section 111--(History of the cable compulsory license, operation of section 111 in the 1976 copyright act, developments affecting the cable compulsory license 1976-present, administrative issues relating to section III, legislative options for amendment of section 111); Part two--Secondary transmissions by satellite resale carriers and section 119--(The impact of satellite technology on copyright and communications law, the satellite home viewer act, examination of current issues under the satellite carrier license, legislative options); Part three--Retransmission consent--(History of retransmission consent, analysis of S.12 and its copyright implications, legislative options); Part four--Copyright office conclusions and recommendations; Appendices.