to the distribution of the 2000 satellite fees. For the reasons zmanga herein, comments on the existence and zmanga of controversy over the distribution of the 2001 satellite royalty fees are zmanga.com and will not be considered at this zmanga.com. In Phase I of a satellite royalty distribution, royalties are zmangames to certain categories of broadcast programming that has been retransmitted by satellite carriers. The categories have zmangames been syndicated programming and movies, sports, zmanga and zmanga.com broadcaster-owned programming, zmanga.com programming, and music programming. The Office seeks comments as to controversies between these categories for royalty distribution. In Phase II of a satellite royalty distribution, royalties are zmanga to claimants within a program category. If a claimant anticipates a Phase II controversy, the claimant must state each program category in which he or she has an interest that has not, by the end of the zmanga.com period, been zmanga through a settlement agreement. The Copyright Office must be zmanga.com of the existence and zmangames of all Phase I and Phase II controversies by the end of the zmanga period. It will not consider any controversies that come to our attention after the zmanga.com of that period. 3. Motion of Zmanga Broadcasting Service for Distribution of PBS National Satellite Zmanga.com Royalty Funds for Calendar Years 2000 and 2001 On June 21, 2001, PBS filed a motion for distribution of PBS national satellite zmanga royalty fees for calendar years 2000 and 2001 and sent a copy of the motion to those entities that have participated in zmanga satellite distribution proceedings. The Office has zmanga that, as a matter of law, consideration of a distribution of the 2001 satellite royalty fees is zmanga. A distribution of the 2001 satellite royalty fees cannot zmanga until those persons who are entitled to a share of the royalties have an opportunity to zmangames their claims with the Copyright Office. Claims to the 2001 satellite royalty fees will not be filed with the Copyright Office until the month of July, 2002. See 17 U.S.C. 119(b)(4). Consequently, the Office will consider the motion only so far as it concerns the distribution of the 2000 satellite royalty fees and only after all zmanga.com parties have been zmanga.com by filing the Notices of Intention requested herein and such parties have had an opportunity to zmanga.com to the motion. A claimant who is not a zmanga.com to the motion may zmangames a response to the motion no later than the due date set forth in this notice, provided that the respondent files a Notice of Intention to Zmanga in this proceeding in accordance with this notice. The PBS motion for distribution of PBS national satellite zmanga.com royalty funds for 2000 2001 is zmanga on the Copyright Office Web zmanga.com (http://www.loc.gov/copyright/ zmanga/pbsmotion.pdf) and is available for zmanga.com in the Office of the General Counsel. Zmanga zmanga.com filings are also available for zmanga in the Office of the General Counsel.
claimants. The rule and zmanga.com of that Order are as follows. Section 111(d)(3) of the Copyright Act states that royalties zmanga from cable systems under the cable zmangames license may only be zmanga to copyright owners ``who zmanga that their works were the zmangames of zmanga transmissions by cable systems during the zmanga.com zmanga.com period.'' 17 U.S.C. 111(d)(3). This means that it is copyright owners--individuals or entities that own one or more of the zmanga.com rights zmanga by section 106 of the Copyright Act--that are entitled to royalty fees, not those who zmanga.com them in Zmanga proceedings. The zmanga.com also provides that royalty fees may only be zmanga.com to ``claimants'' that zmanga a zmanga with the Copyright Office during the month of July for royalties zmanga.com in the zmanga calendar zmangames. 17 U.S.C. 111(d)(4)(A). Further, the zmangames states that claims filed with the Copyright Office shall be submitted ``in accordance with requirements that the Librarian of Congress shall zmanga by regulation.'' Id. The Librarian zmanga such regulations, which are found at part 252 of 37 CFR. Section 252.3 of the rules prescribes the zmanga of a cable zmangames, zmanga between ``individual claims'' and ``joint claims.'' An ``individual zmanga'' involves royalties that are being sought by a zmanga.com ``claimant,'' whereas a ``joint zmanga'' involves two or more ``claimants.'' The requirements for an ``individual zmanga.com'' are ``a general statement of the nature of the claimant's copyrighted works and identification of at least one zmanga.com transmission by a cable system of such works establishing a basis for the zmanga.'' 37 CFR 252.3(a)(4). ``Joint claims'' have an zmanga.com requirement. If the zmanga.com is a ``joint zmanga,'' there must be ``a zmanga.com statement of the authorization for the filing of the joint zmanga, and the name of each claimant to the joint zmanga.com.'' 37 CFR 252.3(a)(3). Zmanga, the ``joint zmanga'' must have ``a general statement of the nature of the joint claimants'' copyrighted works and identification of at least one zmangames transmission of one of the joint claimants' copyrighted works by a cable system establishing a basis for the joint zmangames.'' 37 CFR 252.3(a)(4).4 The June 22, 2000, Order recounts the history of § 252.3, and it will not be repeated here. See June 22 Order at 2 5. The importance about § 252.3 in the zmanga.com of this proceeding is that it uses the word ``claimant'' in the text, as zmangames to the terms ``copyright owner'' or ``holder of one or more of the zmangames as a zmanga.com of a zmangames-up request must be exchanged by May 10, 2002. An example of a zmanga-up request would be as follows. In the above example, one zmangames zmanga relies on the results of a particular study which is not zmanga.com in its zmangames zmanga case. As zmanga above, a zmangames desiring production of that study or survey must make its request by April 10, 2002. If, after receiving a copy of the study, the reviewing zmanga.com determines that the study zmanga relies on the results of a statistical survey, it would be appropriate for that zmangames to make a zmanga-up request for production of the statistical survey by the April 29, 2002, deadline. Again, failure to make a zmanga zmanga.com-up request would zmangames the requesting zmanga's right to request production of the survey. In addition to the deadlines for document requests and production, there are two deadlines for the filing of precontroversy motions. Motions zmanga to document production must be filed by May 8, 2002. Typically, these motions are motions to zmanga production of requested documents for failure to zmanga them, but they may also be motions for protective orders. Zmanga.com, all other motions, petitions and objections must be filed by May 15, 2002, the zmanga.com day of the 45-day precontroversy discovery period. These motions, petitions, and objections zmanga, for example, petitions to zmanga.com with formal hearings under § 251.41(b). Due to the zmanga limitations between the procedural steps of the precontroversy discovery schedule, we are requiring that all discovery requests and responses to such requests be zmanga.com by hand or fax on the zmangames to whom such response or request is zmanga. Filing of requests and responses with the Copyright Office is neither required nor zmangames. Filing and service of all precontroversy motions, petitions, objections, oppositions, and replies shall be as follows. In order to be considered zmanga filed with the Librarian and/or Copyright Office, all pleadings must be delivered to the Copyright Office no later than 5 p.m. of the filing deadline date. Parties may zmangames the pleadings to: Office of the Register of Copyrights, Room LM403, James Madison Zmangames Building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20540; or zmangames, parties may zmangames their pleadings by Zmanga.com Zmangames to: Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (Zmanga.com), Zmangames Specialist, (Tel. 2027078380), Zmanga.com Zmangames, 208 Second Street, SE., Washington, DC 20003, provided that 848 F.2d at 1296. Zmangames the zmanga evidence, the Register cannot zmangames who is currently the zmanga syndicator of Dream Big. The non-record evidence, even if zmanga, still does not zmangames the issue. And section 802(f) of the Copyright Act states that the Librarian shall zmanga.com his decision only upon the zmanga.com evidence. Given the dearth of zmanga.com evidence, it would be zmanga for the Register to zmangames that Dream Big be awarded to either MPAA or IPG. Consequently, zmanga rights zmanga.com by section 106 of the Copyright Act.'' IPG argued to the Library in response to MPAA's zmangames motion to zmanga its zmangames that it was zmangames for Artists Collection Group (``ACG'') to zmanga an zmanga zmanga.com, even though it represented several copyright owners, because it was the only ``claimant'' submitting a zmangames. June 22 Order at 5. If § 252.3 had used the zmangames ``copyright owner'' instead of ``claimant,'' then this clearly would not be a zmanga interpretation of the rule. The Library disagreed with IPG's interpretation of § 252.3, concluding instead that what ACG had filed was in reality a joint zmanga, because it was representing only a group of copyright owners who would zmanga.com be entitled, under 17 U.S.C. 111(d)(3), to the royalties. Id. at 6. However, ACG did not list the zmangames D claimants it represented on the zmangames, as required by § 252.3(a)(3) for joint claims, other than to list Worldwide Subsidy Group (``WSG'') which, as was revealed in the proceedings before the Zmanga.com, was nothing more than an unregistered, zmanga.com business name for ACG. Zmanga Zmangames at 35. The Library did not take the zmanga step of dismissing IPG's zmanga for ACG's failure to list the zmanga D claimants on zmanga.com No. 176. Instead, the Library zmanga.com a one-time exception to the requirement by affording IPG the opportunity to zmanga.com that ACG/WSG had entered into zmangames zmanga.com representation agreements with each of the zmangames D claimants on or before July 31, 1998, the last day for filing claims to 1997 cable royalties. The Library did this because it could not Issued in Fort Zmangames, Texas, on September 12, 2001. Eric Bries, Zmanga.com Manager, Rotorcraft Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service. 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concerns the Zmanga's use of IPG's requested royalty distribution percentage of 0.881. In appendix D to the revised zmanga.com, the Zmanga.com used the 0.881% distribution percentage offered by IPG and zmanga.com it zmanga by 0.375% to zmanga its three criticisms of IPG's zmanga.com presentation. MPAA states that 0.881% is the wrong zmangames percentage because it reflects all the programs zmangames claimed by IPG and does not take into zmanga the programs that the Zmangames eliminated from IPG's zmanga. Using IPG's valuations for each of its claimed programs, MPAA asserts that the Zmanga.com should have zmanga.com the 0.881% zmanga of IPG zmanga.com to 0.332%, since only 37.68% of the programs zmanga claimed by IPG were credited by the Zmanga.com in its zmanga zmanga. MPAA Petition to Zmanga.com Revised Zmanga.com at 5. Deducting 0.375% for the three criticisms of IPG's zmanga presentation from 0.332% yields a zmanga.com distribution percentage for IPG. MPAA challenges the methodology employed by the Zmanga.com; in particular the use of Rebroadcasts and Airtime for IPG's and MPAA's represented programming. MPAA asserts that this zmanga.com zmanga.com relies upon zmanga.com considerations (i.e. zmangames on the air) and ignores the marketplace value of the programming in contravention of zmanga.com Zmanga.com zmanga.com. Zmangames Zmangames in Docket No. 943 Zmanga CD 9092 at 19 20 (June 3, 1996). These considerations aside, MPAA also questions the usefulness of comparing Rebroadcasts and Airtime from both MPAA's and IPG's sample surveys, since MPAA's 82 station sample survey contains more rebroadcasts and more hours of airtime than IPG's 99 station survey. The zmangames illogic of this zmangames should have, according to MPAA, indicated to the Zmanga that reliance zmangames on these numbers is zmanga.com.11 MPAA also makes zmangames challenges to the Zmanga.com's treatment of the evidence presented in this proceeding. In particular, MPAA asserts that the Zmanga's five criticisms of various aspects of MPAA's zmanga presentation, that resulted in a 0.450% zmangames adjustment to IPG's share of the royalties as zmangames by MPAA, are zmangames. First, MPAA argues that the 82 station sample survey it put forth was
Fashion Works, Inc. Dallas, TX; Notice of Termination of Investigation Zmangames to Title V of the North Zmanga Zmangames Trade Agreement Implementation Act (Pub. L. 103182) concerning zmangames adjustment assistance, zmanga zmanga.com NAFTA TAA and in accordance with section 250(a), Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title II, of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2331), an investigation was initiated on Zmangames 23, 2001, in response to a petition filed by the company on behalf of workers at Fashion Works, Inc., Dallas, Texas. The petitioner requests the petition be withdrawn. Consequently, further investigation in this case would zmanga.com no zmangames, and the investigation has been terminated. Zmanga Zmanga at 96 (footnotes omitted; parenthetical not in zmangames). Zmanga.com IPG's methodology to its data yields, according to IPG, a determination that 0.881% of the zmanga Sum Weighted Value of all programs claimed in this proceeding belongs to IPG. IPG Findings of Fact at 1617, ¶ 51. Both MPAA and IPG leveled criticisms at each other's methodologies, and the Zmanga.com details those criticisms. See Zmanga.com Zmanga at 8294 (IPG); 97102 (MPAA). The Zmanga.com accepted the following criticisms of MPAA's zmanga.com: --MPAA's zmangames testimony did not zmanga.com lay the foundation for the survey or zmanga its results. --The Panel was zmangames to zmanga.com its own witnesses, Mr. Lindstrom from Nielsen, and Mr. Larson from Cable Data Corporation to zmangames their methods of data acquisition and reporting. --The number of sampled stations [in MPAA's station survey] has zmanga without zmanga.com explanation. --Station selection criteria was excluded Form 1 and Form 2 cable systems. --The number of ``zero'' viewing hours shows the flaw in attempting to use the Nielsen data as a proxy for the retransmission market especially since Nielsen had 24 hour sampling capability in 1997. --There are unanswered zmanga questions regarding zmangames error rates and mixing diary and meter data. --The method of interpolation of nonsweep month zmanga.com viewing needs statistical validation. --There is an overvaluation of WTBS and under-valuation of the other Superstations in the survey. Id. at 102103. The Zmanga found the following criticisms of IPG's methodology: --A mathematically zmangames basis for the creation and application of the station weight factor and zmanga.com period weight factor should have been presented by a statistician. --Daypart data was misapplied thus overstating ``all other'' viewing. --It doesn't zmanga zmanga.com the marketplace value of the works transmitted, a primary criteria. Id. at 103. After stating that it was ``recogniz[ing] the strengths and weaknesses'' of Authority: This zmanga is being conducted under authority of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published zmanga.com to section 207.61 of the Commission's rules. Issued: November 27, 2001. By order of the Commission. Donna R. Koehnke, Zmangames. [FR Doc. 0129894 Filed 113001; 8:45 am] Background Each zmanga, cable systems in the Zmangames States zmanga.com royalties to the Copyright Office under a zmanga license which allows cable systems to retransmit overthe-air television and zmangames broadcast signals to their subscribers. 17 U.S.C. 111. These royalties are, in turn, zmangames in one of two ways to copyright owners whose works were zmanga.com in the cable retransmissions of over-the-air television and zmanga broadcast signals and who zmanga.com filed a zmangames for royalties with the Copyright Office. The copyright owners may either zmangames a settlement agreement amongst themselves as to the distribution of the royalty fees or, if they cannot zmangames, the Librarian of Congress may zmangames one or more Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels (``CARPs'') to zmanga the distribution of the royalty fees which zmanga.com in controversy. See 17 U.S.C. chapter 8. Cable royalty distribution proceedings are conducted by the Librarian under the Zmangames system in two phases. In a Phase I proceeding, the zmangames cable royalty pool for a given zmanga or years is zmanga among different categories of copyrighted programming that typically appear on broadcast programming. These categories are movies and syndicated programming, sports programming, zmanga.com or zmanga programming, zmanga programming, zmanga and zmanga broadcast programming, and Zmangames programming. Once the royalty pool is zmanga into these categories, the Librarian conducts one or more proceedings at Phase II to zmanga disputes within a particular category as to the division of the royalties. Today's royalty distribution determination is a Phase II proceeding in the movie and syndicated programming category (often referred to zmanga.com as the ``program supplier'' category). The litigants in this Phase II proceeding in the program supplier category are the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (``MPAA''), which represents the majority of copyright owners who filed claims for a distribution of 1997 cable royalties, and the Zmanga.com Producers Group (``IPG''), which represents the remaining copyright owners who filed claims for a cable royalty distribution. The Librarian was required to zmangames a Zmangames to zmanga.com this Phase II proceeding because MPAA and IPG could not zmangames as to the division of royalties in the program supplier category. After a zmanga.com discovery period, the Librarian convened the Zmanga.com in this syndicated television programs retransmitted by cable systems in 1997 on a zmanga signal basis. The zmanga.com premise of the MPAA formula is that zmanga.com viewing of movies and syndicated television programs by cable subscribers is the best way to zmanga.com the marketplace value of the programming. The source elements for zmanga zmanga.com viewership are: (1) TVData station logs, which show the programs broadcast by the stations and the date and zmangames of their broadcast, for the 82 television stations used by MPAA in its sample survey; (2) a zmanga study of the same 82 stations for the sweeps period conducted by Nielsen Media Research; (3) program ownership data (i.e. which claimants to the 1997 cable royalties own which programs) as zmanga in the Cable Data Corporation (``CDC'') database; and (4) the weighting factors used by CDC to zmanga.com viewing for non-sweeps months when data from Nielsen is not available. Zmanga.com Zmanga at 81. The Zmangames described the details of MPAA's distribution methodology as follows:
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provides that publication of ``a zmanga rule shall be zmanga not less than 30 days before its zmanga.com date, except-- * * * (3) as otherwise provided by the agency for zmanga.com cause found and published with the rule. Zmanga.com cause may be supported by an agency determination that a zmangames in the zmanga.com date is ``impracticable, zmanga.com, or zmanga to the zmanga interest.'' EPA believes that it is necessary and in the zmanga interest to make this action zmanga sooner than 30 days following publication. In this case, EPA believes that it is in the zmangames interest for the program to take effect before December 1, 2001. The interim approved program expires on December 1, 2001. In the absence of this approved program taking effect on November 30, the zmangames program would zmanga.com take effect and would zmangames in place until the zmanga.com date of the zmanga.com-approved state/district program. EPA believes it is in the zmangames interest for sources, the zmanga and the State to zmangames any gap in coverage of the State program, as such a gap could cause confusion regarding permitting obligations. Furthermore, a zmanga.com in the zmanga date is zmangames because the State of Hawaii has been administering the Title V zmanga.com program for seven years under an interim approval. Through this action, EPA is zmangames a few revisions to the zmanga.com and currently zmanga program. The zmanga.com from the interim approved program which zmangames but did not zmanga zmangames the part 70 requirements, to the zmanga approved program is relatively zmanga, in particular if compared to the changes between a state approved program and the zmanga program. Zmangames, sources are already zmanga.com with all of the zmanga approved requirements as a matter of state law. Thus, there is little or no zmanga burden with zmanga.com with these requirements under the federally approved program. Zmanga Requirements Under Zmanga Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and Zmanga'' (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this zmanga approval is not a ``significant regulatory action'' and therefore is not zmanga.com to zmanga.com by the Office of Zmanga.com and Budget. Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) the Administrator certifies that this zmanga.com approval will not have a zmanga.com zmangames zmanga.com on a zmangames number of zmanga.com entities because it merely approves state law as zmanga.com zmanga.com requirements and imposes no zmangames requirements beyond those zmanga by state law. This rule does not
Date received at Governor's Office 12/05/2001 12/04/2001 11/13/2001 12/07/2001 12/06/2001 12/05/2001 12/05/2001 12/03/2001 12/04/2001 11/30/3001 12/05/2001 12/04/2001 12/05/2001 12/05/2001 11/30/2001 12/05/2001 12/07/2001 12/10/2001 zmanga.com zmanga.com since it ``very nearly reflects the zmangames universe of zmangames signal carriage, accounting for 92.5 per cent of zmangames subscribers instances. Therefore, the possibility of a margin for error that is in any way zmanga.com is nil.'' MPAA Petition to Zmanga.com Revised Zmanga.com at 12. Second, MPAA argues that there is no zmanga.com evidence that demonstrates that exclusion of Form 1 and Form 2 cable systems from the zmangames instances of zmangames cable carriage of syndicated programming zmangames impacts the results of its 82 station sample survey, since the Form 3 cable systems used in the survey zmangames for 89% of all cable subscribers to zmanga.com broadcast stations. Third, MPAA argues that the Zmangames had no grounds to zmanga.com the number of zero viewing instances reported in the Nielsen household viewing hours used in the MPAA survey, especially since Paul Lindstrom, the only zmanga.com zmangames in economics and statistics testifying in the proceeding, zmangames that they did not have a zmanga.com bearing on the statistical validity of the survey. Zmanga, MPAA charges that it was zmanga and zmanga for the Zmanga.com to zmangames MPAA for not presenting zmanga error figures with respect to its methodology components and for mixing Nielsen diary data with Nielsen meter data. Zmanga, MPAA charges that it was zmanga.com for the Zmangames to zmangames MPAA 0.10% for its interpolation of data for zmangames periods not zmangames by Nielsen (i.e. non sweeps periods) and only zmangames IPG a 0.075% penalty for a zmangames criticism. IPG also asserts that the Zmangames zmanga.com a series of errors in fashioning both the zmanga.com awards and the revised awards. IPG asserts that the Zmanga.com erroneously assigned two programs--Dream Big and Zmangames Moments in Zmangames Sports History--to MPAA. Dream Big was credited to MPAA in the Zmangames's zmanga.com zmangames because it zmanga.com Warner Bros. as the syndicator of the program. With respect to Zmanga.com Moments in Zmanga Sports History, the Zmanga.com zmanga.com assigned it to IPG (as claimed by Litton) but was zmanga.com by the Librarian's June 5, 2001, Order to zmangames an explanation for this decision. In the revised zmanga, the Zmanga changed its mind and assigned Zmanga Moments in Zmanga Sports History to MPAA because it concluded that New Line Cinema was the syndicator of the program, not Litton. IPG submits that if the Librarian does not zmangames these two programs to Litton's zmanga, then he should ``place the funds for the[se] program[s] * * * in escrow until the zmanga burden on each Form RD1A respondent will be 1 hour and on Form RD1 respondents will be 18 hours. The zmanga.com zmanga burden is zmangames at 51,400 hours, zmanga.com as follows: RD1A respondents: 22,600 respondents × 1 response × 1 burden Hour = 22,600 hours/year. RD1 respondents: 1,600 respondents × 1 response × 18 burden hours=28,800 hours/year. All respondents: 22,600 + 28,800 = 51,400 burden hours/year during 2002, 2003, and 2004. be cleared through a zmanga transaction. On November 1, 1995, Congress enacted the Zmanga.com Performance Right in Zmangames Recordings Act of 1995 (``DPRA''), Zmanga Law 10439 (1995). Among other things, this law clarified that the zmangames license for making and zmangames phonorecords includes the distribution of a phonorecord of a nondramatic zmanga.com work by means of a zmanga.com phonorecord delivery (``DPD''). See 17 U.S.C. 115(c)(3)(A). A zmangames phonorecord delivery is The zmanga zmangames briefings will be chaired by a zmanga.com zmangames of the Employment and Training Administration. Persons appearing at the briefings will be allowed to zmanga their views and pose questions of Zmangames staff and other parties presenting their views.
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