FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   >>  
sion for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and other appropriate officials of the Library of Congress, establish by regulation standardized forms and procedures by which, at the time applications covering certain specified categories of nondramatic literary works are submitted for registration under section 408 of this title, the copyright owner may voluntarily grant to the Library of Congress a license to reproduce the copyrighted work by means of Braille or similar tactile symbols, or by fixation of a reading of the work in a phonorecord, or both, and to distribute the resulting copies or phonorecords solely for the use of the blind and physically handicapped and under limited conditions to be specified in the standardized forms. CHAPTER 8--COPYRIGHT ROYALTY TRIBUNAL. Analysis. Sec. 801. Copyright Royalty Tribunal: Establishment and purpose. 802. Membership of the Tribunal. 803. Procedures of the Tribunal. 804. Institution and conclusion of proceedings. 805. Staff of the Tribunal. 806. Administrative support of the Tribunal. 807. Deduction of costs of proceedings. 808. Reports. 809. Effective date of final determinations. 810. Judicial review. Section 801. Copyright Royalty Tribunal: Establishment and purpose. (a) There is hereby an independent Copyright Royalty Tribunal in the legislative branch. (b) Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the purposes of the Tribunal shall be-- (1) to make determinations concerning the adjustment of reasonable copyright royalty rates as provided in sections 115 and 116, and to make determinations as to reasonable terms and rates of royalty payments as provided in section 118. The rates applicable under sections 115 and 116 shall be calculated to achieve the following objectives. (A) To maximize the availability of creative works to the public; (B) To afford the copyright owner a fair return for his creative work and the copyright user a fair income under existing economic conditions; (C) To reflect the relative roles of the copyright owner and the copyright user in the product made available to the public with respect to relative creative contribution, technological contribution, capital investment, cost, risk, and contribution to the opening of new markets for creative expression and media for their communication; (D) To minimize any disruptive impact on the structure of the industries involved and on general
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   >>  



Top keywords:
Tribunal
 
copyright
 
creative
 
determinations
 

contribution

 

Royalty

 

Copyright

 

sections

 

Library

 

Establishment


public

 

relative

 

purpose

 

provided

 

section

 

reasonable

 

standardized

 
Congress
 
royalty
 

conditions


proceedings

 

applicable

 
achieve
 

calculated

 

payments

 

chapter

 
adjustment
 

independent

 

legislative

 
branch

Subject

 
provisions
 

purposes

 

income

 
markets
 

expression

 

opening

 

investment

 

communication

 

industries


involved

 
general
 
structure
 

impact

 

minimize

 

disruptive

 

capital

 

technological

 

afford

 
return