Licensing Information

Important Notice: Deadline Extended for Filing Cable Statements of Account On August 12, 2010, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association submitted a letter to the Copyright Office seeking a 30-day extension of the filing deadline for cable copyright statements of account (SOA) covering the first accounting period of 2010.  The Office has granted NCTA's request.  The deadline to file cable SOAs for the first accounting period of 2010 is now September 29, 2010.  See NCTA letter. For further information read Federal Register 75 FR 52276.

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Cable Statements of Account Now Available on the Website

The statement of account forms SA 1-2 (short form) and SA3 (long form) for the January 1, 2010, to June 30, 2010, accounting period are now available. The forms were also mailed to cable operators on July 7, 2010. Please note that cable statement of account forms produced by private vendors will be available soon. For further information, contact the Licensing Division by email at licensing@loc.gov or by phone at (202) 707-8150.

The Licensing Division in the Copyright Office administers the compulsory and statutory licenses in the Copyright Act (title 17 of the U.S. Code). The division collects royalty fees from cable operators for retransmitting television and radio broadcasts (section 111), from satellite carriers for retransmitting “superstation” and network signals (section 119), and from importers or manufacturers for distributing digital audio recording products (see Report of Receipts). The division deducts its full operating costs from the royalty fees and invests the balance in interest-bearing securities with the U.S. Treasury for later distribution to copyright owners. For further information read Circular 75, The Licensing Division of the Copyright Office. Note: Effective October 1, 2006, all statutory license royalty fee payments must be made via electronic funds transfer (EFT) (read more). See a presentation on making EFT payments (Use Flash Player ).

Search the Licensing Division System (LDS) to retrieve certain data (beginning with the accounting period January-June 1992 to the present) from statements of account filed by cable television operators. LDS Database

Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA)

Notice of Designation as Collective under Statutory License Filing

Notice of Use of Sound Recordings under Statutory License Form

Licensing Division Service Fees

Licensing Division Interest Rates

Document	Format		Title
Circular 22			How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work
Circular 73			Compulsory License For Making and Distributing Phonorecords
Circular 74a			How to Make Statutory License Royalty EFT Payments via Wire
Circular 74b			How to Make Statutory License Royalty EFT Payments via ACH Credit
EFT Remittance Advice			Electronic Funds Transfer Remittance Advice
Circular 74c			How to Make Statutory License Royalty EFT Payments Using Pay.gov
			Demo on How to Make Statutory License Royalty EFT Payments Using Pay.gov
Circular 75			The Licensing Division of the Copyright Office
201.17			Statements of Account covering compulsory licenses for secondary transmissions by cable systems.
201.18			Notice of intention to obtain a compulsory license for making and distributing phonorecords of nondramatic musical works.
201.19			Royalties and statements of account under compulsory license for making and distributing phonorecords of nondramatic musical works.
M-200a			Mechanical Copyright Royalty Rates
SL 4L			Copyright Office Licensing Division Fees

Forms Related to Licensing

Visit the Copyright Royalty Board website for information on determination of rates and terms for the copyright statutory licenses and for determinations on distribution of statutory license royalties collected by the Copyright Office.

See also, documents from the old Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) system.