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March 30, 2010
Register of Copyrights: CRJs Have Authority under Copyright Act to Subpoena a Nonparticipant to Appear and Testify
Copyright Royalty Judges’ Authority to Subpoena a Nonparticipant to Appear
Docket No. RF 2009–1, 3/19/2010
On January 28, 2010, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 802(f)(1), the Copyright Royalty Judges (‘‘CRJs’’) referred to the Register of Copyrights a novel material question of substantive law that has arisen in this proceeding. The Copyright Royalty Judges included briefs that had been submitted in December 2009 and January 2010 by the parties to the proceeding and transcripts of a hearing held on January 12, 2010, relating to the authority of the CRJs to subpoena a nonparticipant in a proceeding.
After recounting the relevant statutory provisions of Chapter 8 of Title 17, the CRJs posed the following novel material question of substantive…
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