Webcasting Notice: Initial Comments

Notice and Recordkeeping
for Use of Sound Recordings Under Statutory License
Initial Comments

On February 7, 2002, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a notice of a proposed rulemaking on the requirements for giving sound recording copyright owners reasonable notice of the use of their works in connection with the section 114 statutory license for certain digital transmissions of public performances of sound recordings, and on the requirements for how records of such use will be kept and made available to copyright owners.

Interested parties submitted comments on the rulemaking by April 5. Reply comments were due April 26. For more details, please see Federal Register notice 67 FR 5761.

Read more information about webcasting notice and recordkeeping: background, public roundtable, and interim regulations.

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Initial Comments

Document	Commenter
1	Philip Gladstone
2	Herbert W. Robinson
3	Arthur R. Marriott
4	Michael P. Jackson
5	Joshua S. Wattles
6	Websound, Inc.
7	Maynard R. Johnson
8	Carl Bruce
9	Inetprogramming Incorporated
10	Joel B. Easton, COO: CPI Interactive, Virtual Radio Addendum
11	WSMI-FM Radio Station Talley Broadcasting Corporation
12	WSMI-AM Radio Station Talley Broadcasting Corporation
13	David Halford
14	Andante Corp.
15	Mayflower Hill Broadcasting Corporation
16	Collegiate Broadcasters, Inc.
17	National Federation of Community Broadcasters
18	Ultimate-80s /Discombobulated, LLC
19	Future of Music Coalition
20	Digital Media Association
21	College and University Broadcasting Stations KXUL, KALX, KDVS, KUCI, KUCR, KCSB, KZSC, KFJC, KSPC, KZSU, KTRU, WFNP, and WSBF
22	Music Choice
23	Beethoven.com
24	College Radio Station WOBC
25	Royal Programs, Inc.
26	Electronic Frontier Foundation; Fresno Free College Foundation KFCF 88.1 FM; Electronic Privacy Information Center; and KPFA Radio Lohmann
27	Adventist Radio Broadcasters Association
28	American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, & American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
29	Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. & XM Satellite Radio, Inc.
30	Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
31	Bonneville International Corporation; Clear Channel Communications, Inc.;Cox Radio, Inc.; National Association of Broadcasters; National Religious Broadcasters Music License Committee; Salem Communications Corp.; and Susquehanna Radio Corp.
32	Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, Inc
33	Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co., Inc.
34	Dennis J. Kucinich, Member of Congress
35	Patsy T. Mink, Member of Congress
36	Radio Valve
37	Carl Moore
38	Royalty Logic, Inc.
39	3WK
*	The Office also received 25 comments stating that the commentator was opposed to royalty rates proposed in another proceeding. These comments all follow the same model. A representative example of these letters is presented here .

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