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
88 FR 88354 (November 29, 2023).
Filing Fees
Eective January 1, 2014, pursuant to the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA), which granted
authority to the Copyright Oce to establish fees for the ling of statements of account (SOAs) under the section 111, 119,
and 122 statutory licenses, the Oce 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
Eective July 1, 2022, the Copyright Oce moved to a single EFT payment method and strongly encourages the use
of Pay.gov for current, past, and future royalty and ling fee payments. For detailed instructions, see Circular 74 at
www.copyright.gov/circs/circ74.pdf. Your remittance, which must include the royalty payment and appropriate ling fee,
should be made payable to Register of Copyrights. Contact your bank to determine if your account will accept an Automated
Clearing House (ACH) debit.
Remittance Advice Required
Federal regulations [37 CFR 201.17(k)] require you to attached a remittance advice to your statement(s) of account. A copy
of this remittance advice must be sent by email or fax to the Licensing Section. e Oce uses this remittance information
to ensure the funds received by EFT are correctly allocated to each statement of account. Access a remittance advice form at
www.copyright.gov/licensing/remittance-advice.pdf.
Photocopy Required
A legible copy of the semiannual statement of account must be submitted together with the original statement of account to
the Copyright Oce. Note: If you are replying to Licensing Section 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 Section correspondence. Please do not include extra photocopies of the SOA pages aected.
Fillable SOAs Available Online
Access the ll-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 ling fee payments and a cover letter
informing the Licensing Section 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 ling(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
Copyright Oce-LS
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20557-6400
If you have questions about the use of this form, contact the Licensing Section 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
Copyright Oce-LS
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20557-6400
(For courier deliveries,
see page i of the instructions.)
1, 2024.
If you are ling for a prior accounting period, contact the Licensing Section 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 Section)
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.
5
United States Copyright Oce
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 Oce 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 Oce’s public indexes and in search reports prepared for the public. e eect 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 aect the legal suciency 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.
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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:
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, 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 88 FR 88354
(November 29, 2023).
1. Enter the grand total non-network stations for private home viewing
subscribers here and multiply by $0.35
×
.35
=
$
2. Enter the grand total network stations for private home viewing
subscribers here and multiply by $0.35
×
.35
=
$
3. Enter the grand total non-network stations for commercial establishments
subscribers here and multiply by $0.72
×
.72
=
$
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.
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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 Section at (202) 707-8150 or licensing@copyright.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, 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:
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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 Oce 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 Oce’s public indexes and in search reports prepared
for the public. e eect 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 aect the legal suciency 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
transmissions” (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 network 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 establishment must deposit a statement of account
and a royalty fee with the Licensing Section of the Copyright
Oce twice a year.
How to File the Statement of Account, Royalty
and Filing Fees
First Study the information on these pages and the
instructions 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,
indicate that a continuation sheet is attached and use
a blank page for that purpose.
ird
Certify the statement of account by signing at space G.
Fourth Make an electronic payment (see note below)
payable 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
FR
45739.
Fih Send the completed statement of account, together
with one legible copy of the statement of account, and
all continuation sheets to Library of Congress, Copyright
Oce-LS, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington,
DC 20557-6400. Couriers may deliver to the
Licensing Section in room 401 of the James Madison
Memorial Building of the Library of Congress,
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 Section 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
appropriate deadline. Statements of account and electronic
funds transfers received aer 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
requirements.
• e satellite carrier can, without negotiated licenses or
advance 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
retransmission is intended for private home viewing (except
that non-network stations may also be retransmitted for
viewing 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
account 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
deadline accompanied by a cover letter. e amount of
the royalty 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 Register of Copyrights.
• Any satellite carrier that retransmits the signals of a net-
work station to unserved households must, not later than
90 days aer 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
subscribers 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 subscribers since the last list was submitted. e carrier
should contact the Licensing Section of the Copyright
Office to determine the name and address of the network
contact person to whom the subscriber lists should be
submitted.
• e networks should submit to the Licensing Section of the
Copyright Office the name and address of a contact person
to whom subscriber lists should be submitted by satellite
carriers that retransmit a signal of a station owned or
affiliated with that network.
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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
copyright infringement.
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
statutory licensing under the same circumstances with the
additional requirement that the carrier must retransmit the
network station only to unserved households and the carrier
must provide local-into-local service to all DMAs (designated
market areas).
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 segregate
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
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 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 distribution, 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
Communications 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
equipment 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 oer 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 dened 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
Secretary 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
programming of one or more of the four most widely
viewed television networks nationwide is not oered on
either the primary stream or multicast stream transmitted
by any network station in that market or is temporarily
or permanently 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
station, 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 community within the same designated
market area as the noncommercial 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
market in connection with each subscriber in such census
area, borough, or other area.”
•
e term designated market area means a “designated
market area, as determined by Nielsen Media Research
and published in the 1999-2000 Nielsen Station Index
Directory and Nielsen Station Index United States Television
Household 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 dened 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 eect on July 1, 2009; or if there is no [such] stream
then either (i) the single digital stream of programming
associated 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
aliated with the network that, as of July 1, 2009, had been
oered by the television broadcast station for the longest
period of time.”
• e term multicast stream means “a digital stream
containing programming and program related material
aliated with a television network, other than the primary
s t r e a m .”
: 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
December. 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 dierent 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 aer the close of each
accounting 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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Statements of account, royalty and ling fees received
before the end of the accounting period will not be accepted.
Statements and fees received aer the July 30 or January 30
deadlines will be accepted for whatever legal eect they may
have, if any. e Copyright Office takes no position as to what
this eect 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
holiday, 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 aer the filing
deadline shall be subject to an interest assessment. Satellite
carriers 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 eect on the first business day aer 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 Section at (202) 707-8150 or
licensing@copyright.gov.
For underpayments and late payments, the interest shall
begin to accrue on the first day aer 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 Oce.
: 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 aer 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
section 201.11(h)(3)(i) of title 37 of the Code of Federal
Regulations available at www.copyright.gov/title37/201/index.html
or contact the Licensing Section.
