Announcements (MLs)

Presented below are various announcements issued by the Copyright Office from 1954-2001. Please note that this information is historical in nature. Many of the regulations, policies and practices have been superseded and are no longer in force. Please view our home page for current information.



Index ML Heading and Subject Index (Partial List, ML-404 through ML-504)
ML-404

Cable Compulsory License Specialty Station and Significantly Viewed Signal Determinations - Notice of Policy Decision (October 1989)

ML-406 Final Regulations: Registration of Claims to Copyright; Mandatory Deposit of Machine-readable Copies, November 1989
ML-407 Jukebox Operators - Important Information Affecting Jukebox Copyright Licensing (December 1989)
ML-408

Cable Compulsory License; Specialty Station Determination: Preliminary Findings and Request for Comments (August 1990)

ML-409

Attention Cable Operators: SYNDEX Update

ML-410

Cable Compulsory License; Specialty Station Determination - Final Specialty Station List (November 1990)

ML-411

Cable Compulsory License; Specialty Station List - Request for Information (November 1990)

ML-412

Digital Audio Broadcast and Cable Services; Copyright Office Study - Notice of Inquiry (November 1990)

ML-413 Technical Amendment to Final Regulations Statements of Account and Filing Requirements for Satellite Carrier Statutory License (December 1990)
ML-414

Final Regulation: Adjustment of the Syndicated Exclusivity Surcharge

ML-415 Registration of Claims to Copyright; Effective Date of Registration - Final Regulation (December 1990)
ML-416 Registration of Claims to Copyright: Group Registration of Serials - Final Regulation (December 1990)
ML-417 What You Need to Successfully Register your Claim to Copyright
ML-418 Request for Information; Study on Resale Royalties for Works of Art (May 1991)
ML-419 Computer Software Lending by Libraries; Copyright Warning - Final Regulation (May 1991)
ML-420 Housekeeping Amendments: Refund of Excess Fees; Compulsory Licence for Cable Systems; Compulsory Licence for Making and Distributing Phonorecords; Registration of Claims of Copyright - Final Regulations (May 1991)
ML-421 Final Rule: Berne Convention Implementation Act; Technical Amendments, May 1991
ML-422 Registration of Claims of Protection in Mask Works; Gate Arrays - Final Regulations (May 1991)
ML-423 Announcement of Amended Litigation Statement Form Request for Reproduction of Copies, Phonorecords, or Identifying Material Deposited in Connection with Copyright Registration (May 1991)
ML-424 Registrability of Costume Designs - Notice of Inquiry (May 1991)
ML-425 Cable Compulsory License: Specialty Station List - Notice of Filings, Request for Comments (June 1991)
ML-426 Final Rules; Corrections. Refund of Excess Fees; Berne Implementation Act Technical Amendments (July 1991)
ML-427 Final Regulations: Cable Compulsory and Satellite Carrier Statutory Licenses: Electronic Payment of Royalties, July 1991
ML-428 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Cable Compulsory License; Definition of Cable Systems (July 1991)
ML-429 Policy Decision: Notice of Revised Procedures. Policy Decision: Revised Special Handling Procedures (August 1991)
ML-430 General Provisions: Registry of Visual Art Incorporated in Buildings - Final Regulation (August 1991)
ML-431 Notice of Public Hearing Reconsideration of 1988 Policy Decision on Copyrlghtability of Digitized Typefaces (September 1991)
ML-432 Registration of Claims to Copyright Architectural Works - Proposed Regulation (October 1991)
ML-433 Registration of Claims of Copyright Deposit of CD-ROM format - Final Rules (October 1991)
ML-434 Interim Regulations General Provisions - Registry of Documents Pertaining to Computer
Shareware and the Donation of Public Domain Software (October 1991)
ML-435 Policy Decision - Registrability of Costume Designs (November 1991)
ML-436 Copyright Office; Fees - Final Regulation (November 1991)
ML-437 Deposit of Foreign Works - Final Rule (November 1991)
ML-438 Final Specialty Station List Cable Compulsory License: Specialty Station List (November 1991)
ML-439 Registration of Claims to Copyright; Corrections and Technical Amendments - Final Rule; Corrections and Technical Amendments (December 1991)
ML-440 Renewal Registration: Effective Date of Registration - Final Regulations (December 1991)
ML-441 Public Hearings: Artists' Resale Royalties - Notice of Public Hearings (January 1992)
ML-442 Cable Compulsory License; Definition of Cable System - Final Regulation (February 1992)
ML-443 Registrability of Computer Programs that Generate Typefaces - Final Regulation (February 1992)
ML-444 If you have any questions regarding your Deposit Account with the Copyright Office, there are now three ways you can contact us. (March 1992)
ML-445 Request for Information; Study on Waiver of Moral Rights in Visual Artworks - Notice of Inquiry (June 1992)
ML-446 To Satellite Carriers - Important Royalty Rate Changes (June 1992)
ML-447 Recordation of Documents - Policy Decision (June 1992)
ML-448 Cable Compulsory License; Specialty Station Determination - Withdrawal of Broadcast Stations
from 1991 Final Specialty Station List (October 1992)
ML-449 Registration of Claims to Copyright; Group Registration of Daily Newspapers - Final Regulations (October 1992)
ML-450 Registration of Claims to Copyright in Architectural Works - Final Regulation (October 1992)
ML-451 Decisions of the United States Courts Involving Copyright 1985, December 1992
ML-452 Statutory License for Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media: Initial Notice of Distribution - Interim Regulation (November 1992)
ML-453 Renewal of Copyright Registration - Final Regulation (December 1992)
ML-454 Cable and Satellite Carrier Royalty Interest Regulations (Amendments) - Final Rule (January 1993)
ML-455 Document Cover Sheet Availability - Policy Decision (January 1993)
ML-456

Interim Regulation: Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media: Statements of Account, March 1993

ML-457 Registration of Claims to Copyright; Technical Amendments - Final Rule (April 1993)
ML-458

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Digital Recording Devices and Media; Auditing Of, and Confidential Access To, Statements of Account, June 1993

ML-459 Implementation of the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992; Statements of Account Public Meeting - Notice of Informal Public Meeting (April 1993)
ML-460 General Provision - Computer Shareware Registry - Final Regulation (July 1993)
ML-461 Cable Compulsory License; Major Television Market List - Notice of Inquiry (July 1993)
ML-462 Cable and Satellite Carrier Royalty Refunds - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (July 1993)
ML-463 Computer Program Rental by Libraries: Report of the Register of Copyrights on the Effects of 17 U.S.C. 109(b)(2). - Notice of Inquiry (July 1993)
ML-464 Cable Compulsory License: Status of Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services (MMDS) - Final Rule; Extension of Effective Date; Policy Decision (August 1993)
ML-465

Duration of Copyright Term of Protection - Notice of Public Hearing and Notice of Inquiry (August 1993)

ML-466 Privacy Act of 1974; Current Systems of Records; Establishment of New Systems of Records - Notice of Current Systems of Records and of Establishment of New Systems of Records. (August 1993)
ML-467 Cable Compulsory License; Definition of a Cable System - Final Regulation; Technical Amendment (September 1993)
ML-468 Copyright Compulsory License Information Via Fax (January 1994)
ML-469 Extension of Comment Period, Duration of Copyright Terms of Protection, November 1993
ML-470 Congress Establishes New Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels (December 1993)
ML-471 Copyright Royalty Tribunal; Transfer and Adoption of Regulations - Interim Regulations (January 1994)
ML-472

Notice of Policy Decision: General Provisions—Copyright Restoration of Certain Mexican and Canadian Works, February 1994

ML-473 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Announcement of Open Meeting: Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels; Rules and Regulations, February 1994
ML-474

Interim Regulation with Request for Comments: Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media; Statements of Account, February 1994

ML-475 Ascertainment of Controversy for 1992 and 1993 Digital Audio Recording Royalty Funds - Notice with Request for Comments (March 1994)
ML-476 Procedures for Copyright Restoration of Certain Motion Pictures and their Contents in Accordance with the North American Free Trade Agreement - Interim Regulation with Request for Comments (April 1994)
ML-477 New Post Office Boxes - Copyright Office Establishes New Post Office Boxes (April 1994)
ML-478 Interim Regulations: Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels; Rules and Regulations
ML-478a Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels; Rules and Regulations: Interim Regulations, June 1994
ML-479 Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels; List of Arbitrator Names - Determination of CARP Arbitrator List (June 1994)
ML-480 1992 and 1993 Digital Audio Recording Royalty Funds; Motions and Objections - Notice of Time Period to File Motions and Objections (June 1994)
ML-481 Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels: Rules and Regulations - Final Rule and Corrections (July 1994)
ML-482 Consolidation of 1992,1993 and 1994 Digital Audio Recording Distribution Proceedings - Notice of Consolidation of Proceedings, Royalty Distribution, and Public Meeting (August 1994)
ML-483 Fees - Interim Regulations with Request for Comments (August 1994)
ML-484

Notice of Intention to Amend Regulations and Request for Comments: Copyright Office Fees; Deposit Accounts, August 1994

ML-485 Cable Compulsory License; Major Television Market List - Notice of Policy Decision (September 1994)
ML-486 Extension - Due to the delay in mailing ML-484 with the Deposit Account Statements, we are extending the comment date in RM 94-5A, Copyright Office Fees; Deposit Accounts to November 22, 1994 (September 1994)
ML-487 Procedures for Copyright Restoration of Certain Motion Pictures and their Contents in Accordance with the North American Free Trade Agreement - Final Regulations (December 1994)
ML-488 Representation for Claming DART Royalties in Musical Works - Waiver of Interim Rule; and Request for Comments (December 1994)
ML-489

Final Rule. Cost of Living Adjustment for Performance of Musical Compositions by Colleges and Universities.
Correction to Regulations. Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels Corrections. (March 1995)

ML-490

Final Regulations: Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels

ML-490a Because of its size (37 pages) we have made a limited distribution of ML-490 (February 1995)
ML-491 Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels; List of Arbitrator Names - Determination of 1995 CARP Arbitrator List (February 1995)
ML-492 Extension of Comment Period: Cable Compulsory License; Notice of Inquiry Regarding Merger of Cable Systems and Individual Pricing of Broadcast Signals
ML-492a By publication in the Federal Register for Thursday January 19,1995, Volume 60, Number 12, p. 3948, ML492 is corrected. (March 1995)
ML-493 Cable Compulsory License: Specialty Station List - Request for Information (February 1995)
ML-494 Ascertainment of Controversy for 1990 and Other Cable Royalty Funds - Notice with Request for Comment (February 1995)
ML-495 Cable Compulsory License; Definition of Cable System - Amendment of Cable License Regulation (March 1995)
ML-496 General Provisions--Copyright Restoration of Certain Berne and WTO Works - Notice of Policy Decision and Public Meeting (March 1995)
ML-497 Copyright Restoration of Certain Motion Pictures in Accordance with the North American Free Trade Agreement; List of Titles for Which Statements of Intent to Restore Copyright Were Received - Publication of List of Restored NAFTA Works (March 1995)
ML-498 Ascertainment of Controversy for 1994 Digital Audio Recording Royalty Funds - Notice with Request for Comments (March 1995)
ML-499

Notice of Consolidation of Proceedings, Request for Notices of Intent to Participate, and Precontroversy Discovery Schedule

ML-500 Registrability of Pictorial, Graphic, or Sculptural Works Where a Design Patent Has Been Issued (April 1995)
ML-501 Registration of Claims to Copyright; Group Registration of Daily Newsletters (April 1995)
ML-502 Modification of Appeal Procedure (May 1995)
ML-503 Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media: Access to and Confidentiality of Statements of Account and Verification Audit Filings (May 1995)
ML-504 Cable Compulsory License: Specialty Station List (May 1995)