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governmental authority of Canada or Mexico and embodying a performance
or display of a work is actionable as an act of infringement under
section 501, and is fully subject to the remedies provided by sections
502 through 506 and section 509, if (A) with respect to Canadian
signals, the community of the cable system is located more than 150
miles for the United States-Canadian border and is also located south
of the forty-second parallel of latitude, or (B) with respect to
Mexican signals, the secondary transmission is made by a cable system
which received the primary transmission by means other than direct
interception of a free space radio wave emitted by such broadcast
television station, unless prior to April 15, 1976, such cable system
was actually carrying, or was specifically authorized to carry, the
signal of such foreign station on the system pursuant to the rules,
regulations, or authorizations of the Federal Communications Commission.
(d) Compulsory License for Secondary Transmissions by Cable Systems--
(1) For any secondary transmission to be subject to compulsory
licensing under subsection (c), the cable system shall, at least one
month before the date of the commencement of operations of the cable
system or within one hundred and eighty days after the enactment of
this Act, whichever is later, and thereafter within thirty days after
each occasion on which the ownership or control or the signal carriage
complement of the cable system changes, record in the Copyright Office
a notice including a statement of identity and address of the person
who owns or operates the secondary transmission service or has power to
exercise primary control over it, together with the name and location
of the primary transmitter or primary transmitters whose signals are
regularly carried by the cable system, and thereafter, from time to
time, such further information as the Register of Copyrights, after
consultation with the Copyright Royalty Tribunal (if and when the
Tribunal has been constituted), shall prescribe by regulation to carry
out the purpose of this clause.
(2) A cable system whose secondary transmissions have been subject to
compulsory licensing under subsection (c) shall, on a semiannual basis,
deposit with the Register of Copyrights, in accordance with
requirements that the Register shall, after consultation with the
Copyright Royalty Tribunal (if and when the Tribunal has been
constituted), prescribe by r
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