egulation--
(A) a statement of account, covering the six months next preceding,
specifying the number of channels on which the cable system made
secondary transmissions to its subscribers, the names and locations of
all primary transmitters whose transmissions to its subscribers, the
names and locations of all primary transmitters whose transmissions
were further transmitted by the cable system, the total number of
subscribers, the gross amounts paid to the cable system for the basic
service of providing secondary transmissions of primary broadcast
transmitters, and such other data as the Register of Copyrights may,
after consultation with the Copyright Royalty Tribunal (if and when the
Tribunal has been constituted), from time to time prescribe by
regulation. Such statement shall also include a special statement of
account covering any nonnetwork television programming that was carried
by the cable system in whole or in part beyond the local service area
of the primary transmitter, under rules, regulations, or authorizations
of the Federal Communications Commission permitting the substitution or
addition of signals under certain circumstances, together with logs
showing the times, dates, stations, and programs involved in such
substituted or added carriage; and
(B) except in the case of a cable system whose royalty is specified in
subclause (C) or (D), a total royalty fee for the period covered by the
statement, computed on the basis of specified percentages of the gross
receipts from subscribers to the cable service during said period for
the basic service of providing secondary transmissions of primary
broadcast transmitters, as follows:
(i) 0.675 of 1 per centum of such gross receipts for the privilege of
further transmitting any nonnetwork programing of a primary transmitter
in whole or in part beyond the local service area of such primary
transmitter, such amount to be applied against the fee, if any, payable
pursuant to paragraphs (ii) through (iv);
(ii) 0.675 of 1 per centum of such gross receipts for the first distant
signal equivalent;
(iii) 0.425 of 1 per centum of such gross receipts for each of the
second, third, and fourth distant signal equivalents;
(iv) 0.2 of 1 per centum of such gross receipts for the fifth distant
signal equivalent and each additional distant signal equivalent
thereafter; and in computing the amounts payable under paragraph (ii)
through (iv), above, any fraction of a dis
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