Copyright Law Updates | New Federal Register Notices
February 2, 2012
Copyright Office Issues Corrections to Specialty Station List
Cable Statutory License: Specialty Station List; Correction
Docket No. 2011–1, 11/28/2011
The Copyright Office periodically seeks to update its list of specialty stations related to the use of the cable compulsory license. Specialty station status is determined by reference to the former regulations of the Federal Communications Commission in effect on June 24, 1981, which defined a specialty station as “a commercial television broadcast station that generally carries foreign-language, religious, and/or automated programming in one-third of the hours of an average broadcast week and one-third of the weekly prime-time hours.”
In response to the publication of an initial updated list of specialty stations in April 2011, the Office received objections filed…
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