Distribution of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Cable Royalty Funds; Distribution of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Satellite Royalty Funds, 65938-65940 [2024-18029]
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Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S.
Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of
the continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent (i.e.,
employer) burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to
provide the public with an opportunity
to comment on proposed and
continuing information collection
requirements in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program
ensures that information is in the
desired format, reporting burden (time
and costs) is minimal, the collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
OSHA’s estimate of the information
collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.)
authorizes information collection by
employers as necessary or appropriate
for enforcement of the OSH Act or for
developing information regarding the
causes and prevention of occupational
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29
U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also requires
that OSHA obtain such information
with minimum burden upon employers,
especially those operating small
businesses, and to reduce to the
maximum extent feasible unnecessary
duplication of effort in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following sections describe who
uses the information collected under
each requirement, as well as how they
use it.
The Standard protects workers from
the adverse health effects that may
result from their exposure to methylene
chloride (MC). The requirements in the
Standard include worker exposure
monitoring, notifying workers of their
MC exposures, administering medical
examinations to workers, providing
examining physicians with specific
program and worker information,
ensuring that workers receive a copy of
their medical examination results,
maintaining workers’ exposure
monitoring and medical examination
records for specific periods, and
providing access to these records by
OSHA, the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, the
affected workers, and their authorized
representatives.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary
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for the proper performance of the
agency’s functions to protect workers,
including whether the information is
useful;
• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of
the burden (time and costs) of the
information collection requirements,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• The quality, utility, and clarity of
the information collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden on
employers who must comply; for
example, by using automated or other
technological information, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Methylene Chloride Standard. The
agency is requesting an adjustment
increase in the burden hours amount
from 61,813 hours to 65,555 hours, a
difference of 3,742 hours. This increase
is due increase in the number of
establishments from 84,595 to 89,760.
OSHA will summarize the comments
submitted in response to this notice and
will include this summary in the
request to OMB to extend the approval
of the information collection
requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Methylene Chloride Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0179.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 89,760.
Number of Responses: 251,235.
Frequency of Responses: Varies.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
65,555.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $22,271,728.
IV. Public Participation—Submission of
Comments on This Notice and Internet
Access to Comments and Submissions
You may submit comments in
response to this document as follows:
(1) electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal; or (2) by
facsimile (fax), if your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
All comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the
ICR (OSHA–2011–0060). You may
supplement electronic submission by
uploading document files electronically.
Comments and submissions are
posted without change at https://
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www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA
cautions commenters about submitting
personal information such as Social
Security numbers and dates of birth.
Although all submissions are listed in
the https://www.regulations.gov index,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from this website. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the https://
www.regulations.gov website to submit
comments and access the docket is
available at the website’s ‘‘User Tips’’
link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office at
(202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–5627)
for information about materials not
available from the website, and for
assistance in using the internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
James S. Frederick, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, directed the
preparation of this notice. The authority
for this notice is the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506
et seq.) and Secretary of Labor’s Order
No. 8–2020 (85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC, on August 6,
2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Royalty Board
[Docket Nos. 19–CRB–0010–CD (2018–
2021), 19–CRB–0011–SD (2018–2021)]
Distribution of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Cable Royalty Funds; Distribution of
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Satellite Royalty
Funds
Copyright Royalty Board (CRB),
Library of Congress.
ACTION: Notice announcing
commencement of distribution
proceedings with request for Petitions to
Participate.
AGENCY:
The Copyright Royalty Judges
(Judges) announce the commencement
of proceedings to determine distribution
of 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 royalties
deposited with the Copyright Office
under the cable service statutory license
and the satellite carrier license. The
Judges also set the date by which all
parties wishing to participate and share
SUMMARY:
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in the distribution of cable or satellite
retransmission royalties for 2018
through 2021, inclusive, must file
Petitions to Participate and pay the
accompanying $150 filing fee. The
Judges seek a single Petition to
Participate in either or both the
allocation phase and distribution phase
of the cable royalty proceeding and a
separate Petition to Participate in either
or both the allocation phase and the
distribution phase of the satellite royalty
proceeding. Any party that fails to file
a petition to participate by the time set
forth in this notice shall not be a
participant at any stage of either
proceeding.
DATES: Petitions to Participate, the filing
fee, and the additional required filing
are due on or before September 12,
2024.
ADDRESSES: The petition to participate
form is available online in eCRB, the
Copyright Royalty Board’s online
electronic filing application, at https://
app.crb.gov/.
Instructions: The petition to
participate process has been simplified.
Interested parties file a petition to
participate by completing and filing the
petition to participate form in eCRB and
paying the fee in eCRB. Do not upload
a petition to participate document.
Additional required information
regarding claims shall be filed in eCRB
separately from the form and no later
than the deadline for filing the petition
to participate.
Docket: For access to the dockets, go
to eCRB, the Copyright Royalty Board’s
electronic filing and case management
system, at https://app.crb.gov/, and
search for Docket Nos. 19–CRB–0010–
CD (2018–2021) and 19–CRB–0011–SD
(2018–2021).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anita Brown, CRB Program Specialist,
(202) 707–7658, crb@loc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Twice each year, cable services and
satellite carriers deposit with the
Copyright Office royalties payable for
the privilege of retransmitting over-theair television and radio broadcast
signals via cable and satellite. 17 U.S.C.
111, 119. The Copyright Royalty Judges
(Judges) oversee distribution of the
royalties to copyright owners whose
works are included in the
retransmissions and who have filed a
timely claim for royalties. Pursuant to
17 U.S.C. 803(b)(1), the Judges hereby
give notice of the commencement of
proceedings for distribution of cable and
satellite royalties deposited for
broadcasts retransmitted in 2018
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through 2021 and call for interested
parties to file Petitions to Participate.
Any party wishing to receive royalties
payable for 2018 through 2021 must file
a Petition to Participate in each
proceeding no later than September 12,
2024. If an interested party fails to file
a Petition to Participate in response to
this notice, that party will not be
eligible for distribution of royalties for
2018 through 2021 from either the cable
or the satellite fund. The Judges will
resolve all issues relating to distribution
of cable and satellite royalty funds for
2018 through 2021 in these proceedings,
Docket No. 19–CRB–0010–CD (2018–
2021) and Docket No. 19–CRB–0011–SD
(2018–2021). See 37 CFR 351.1(b)(2).
Commencement of Distribution
Proceedings
The Judges have determined that
controversies exist with regard to
distribution of the cable and satellite
retransmission royalties that licensees
deposited for 2018, 2019, 2020, and
2021. Therefore, pursuant to Section
804(b)(8) of the Copyright Act, the
Judges are causing this notice to be
published in the Federal Register to
announce the commencement of cable
and satellite distribution proceedings
for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, and
2021.
The Judges base their conclusion
regarding 2018–2021 cable and satellite
fund controversies upon the entirety of
the records, including initial motions
for partial distribution and the silence
following orders granting some of those
motions. The parties have not moved for
further partial distribution despite
reserving in their motions ‘‘the right to
move for additional partial distributions
. . . after . . . any . . . disputes come
into better focus.’’ See, e.g., Motion of
the Allocation Phase Parties for Partial
Distribution of 2020 Satellite Royalty
Funds, Docket No. 21–CRB–0009–SD
(2020 SD) (Mar. 9, 2023).
Groups of claimants to the royalty
funds, acting together and represented
by joint counsel, have surely by now
made an effort to negotiate a
distribution scheme agreeable to all
claimants. Apparently unable to reach
an agreement, the claimants have taken
no further action to seek further partial
or final distribution of the funds.
In the present proceedings, groups of
claimants have identified themselves as
arranged into program categories:
Program Suppliers, Joint Sports
Claimants, Public Television Claimants/
Public Broadcasting Service,
Commercial Television Claimants/
National Association of Broadcasters,
Devotional Claimants, Canadian
Claimants, American Society of
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Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI),
SESAC, Inc., and National Public Radio.
The Judges recognize that other
claimants might not be represented by
joint counsel for the groups of
claimants. The Judges, therefore,
provide this public notice to alert
anyone who claims an interest in cable
or satellite retransmission royalties
deposited for royalty years 2018 through
2021, inclusive.
In order to share in the royalties at
issue, any claimant not joined in one of
the groups identified above must file a
Petition to Participate, individually or
jointly with other claimants. If, at a later
point in the proceedings, a claimant
chooses to join a group participating
through joint counsel, that claimant may
withdraw its individual Petition to
Participate. The prerequisites to
participation in a distribution
proceeding are (1) the filing
(individually or jointly) of a valid claim
for each royalty year at issue and (2) the
filing (individually or jointly) of a valid
Petition to Participate.
Only attorneys who are members in
good standing of the bar of one or more
states may represent parties before the
Judges. All corporate parties must
appear through counsel. Only if the
petitioning party is an individual, may
he or she represent himself or herself
without legal counsel. 37 CFR 303.2.
The Judges previously assigned
separate docket numbers to the cable
and satellite distribution proceedings
for the period 2018 through 2021. Upon
receipt of all Petitions to Participate, the
Judges anticipate consolidating all cable
proceedings for the years 2018 through
2021 under the captioned docket
number 19–CRB–0010–CD (2018–2021)
and all satellite proceedings for the
years 2018 through 2021 under the
captioned docket number 19–CRB–
0011–SD (2018–2021).
Petitions To Participate
Parties filing Petitions to Participate
must comply with the requirements of
section 351.1(b) of the Copyright
Royalty Board’s regulations.
In addition, each Petition to
Participate filing must be accompanied
by a filing that sets forth for each claim
year, the name of each claimant, the
corresponding claim number, an
indication of whether the claim is an
individual or joint claim, and the
program category into which the claim
may fall. Each Petition to Participate
shall be accompanied by a Microsoft
Excel spreadsheet in electronic form
consisting of the following columns:
Claimant; Claim Year; Claim Number;
Claim Type; Allocation Phase Category.
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For ‘‘Claim Type,’’ participants shall
enter ‘‘I’’ for an individual claimant, ‘‘J’’
for a joint claimant, and ‘‘W’’ for a
claimant listed within a joint claim. The
information in the column for ‘‘Claim
Category’’ shall be coded 1 for
syndicated programming and movies, 2
for live college and professional team
sports, 3 for programs produced by local
commercial television stations, 4 for
public broadcasting, 5 for programs of a
religious or devotional character, 6 for
Canadian programs retransmitted within
the United States, 7 for musical works
carried on broadcast television signals,
and 8 for National Public Radio (all nonmusic content broadcast on NPR
stations). Claimants’ characterization of
their claims at this juncture is for ease
of administration only and is not
dispositive of the ultimate disposition of
any claim.
Petitioners who seek to categorize any
claim in a category not listed in the
previous paragraph shall assign a
number (starting with 9) to each new
category and shall include a brief
description of each new proposed
category. Claimants, or claimant
representatives, that have filed claims in
multiple years shall list the claims in
separate rows for each year. Claimants,
or claimant representatives, that will
seek royalties in multiple claim
categories shall list each claim in a
separate row for each separate claim
category. Similarly, claimants, or
claimant representatives, that assert
multiple claims in a given claim year
shall list each claim and claim number
in a separate row. Petitioners are
responsible to make a sufficient
showing of a ‘‘significant interest’’ in
the royalty funds at issue to avoid
dismissal of the Petition to Participate.
Claimants whose claims do not
exceed $1,000 in value and who include
a statement in their Petitions to
Participate that they will not seek
distribution of more than $1,000 may
file the Petition to Participate without
payment of the filing fee.
Participants should conform filed
electronic documents to the Judges’
Guidelines for Electronic Documents,
available online at https://www.crb.gov/
docs/Guidelines_for_Electronic_
Documents.pdf.
Dated: August 8, 2024.
David P. Shaw,
Chief Copyright Royalty Judge.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Notice of Training Session: Effective
Participation in Executive Order 12866
Meetings With the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs (in Spanish)
Office of Management and
Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Notice of training session.
AGENCY:
Interested members of the
public may request a meeting with the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA) to present their views
about a regulatory action that is under
OIRA review. These meetings, known as
E.O. 12866 meetings, serve as listening
sessions for OIRA officials and
representatives from the agency or
agencies taking the regulatory action. To
assist members of the public seeking to
request an E.O. 12866 meeting, OIRA
has modified its website and posted an
instructional video and a step-by-step
guide to requesting a meeting, in
English and Spanish, on its website.
Moreover, to encourage participation by
those who have not historically
requested E.O. 12866 meetings,
including those from underserved
communities, OIRA will offer periodic
and accessible trainings on effective
participation in E.O. 12866 meetings.
OIRA has recently held two training
sessions on E.O. 12866 meeting
participation. To assist Spanishspeaking members of the public who
may wish to request an E.O. 12866
meeting in the future, OIRA will hold a
training session in Spanish.
DATES: The training session will be held
on August 14, 2024, at 3 to 3:45 p.m.,
Eastern Time.
ADDRESSES: Information to access the
virtual training sessions will be
provided upon registration. Members of
the public may register by sending an
email to publicparticipation@
omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please email the Office of Management
and Budget at publicparticipation@
omb.eop.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive
Order 12866 establishes and governs the
process under which OIRA reviews
agencies’ significant regulatory actions.
E.O. 12866 provides that members of the
public may meet with OIRA during
OIRA’s review of draft proposed and
final rules. These meetings, known as
E.O. 12866 meetings, offer an
opportunity for members of the public
to present their views on regulatory
actions under review. OIRA invites
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representatives from the agency or
agencies taking the regulatory action to
these meetings, though participation
may be limited by scheduling or other
considerations. E.O. 12866 meetings
serve as listening sessions for OIRA and
agency representatives, and both the
identity of meeting attendees and any
written materials provided by the
meeting requestors are disclosed on
OIRA’s website.
In an effort to facilitate meeting
requests, OIRA has modified its website
to simplify the request form and to
provide several avenues through which
outside parties can request meetings.1 In
addition, OIRA has provided detailed
written step-by-step instructions in
English and Spanish,2 as well as a video
(also translated into Spanish),3 on its
website, RegInfo.gov, on how to
schedule a meeting. To facilitate broader
participation in E.O. 12866 meetings,
including by requestors who have not
historically requested such meetings or
face challenges in traveling to
Washington, DC, OIRA holds E.O. 12866
meetings virtually, primarily as
teleconferences.
To encourage participation by
members of the public who have not
historically requested E.O. 12866
meetings, including members of
underserved communities, OIRA will
offer periodic and accessible trainings
on effective participation in E.O. 12866
meetings. OIRA recently held two
training sessions. To assist Spanishspeaking members of the public, OIRA
will hold a training session in Spanish
on August 14, 2024, at 3 to 3:45 p.m.,
Eastern Time. The training session will
be conducted entirely in Spanish, and
will include a question-and-answer
period. At the training sessions OIRA
will describe (1) what an E.O. 12866
meeting is; (2) how members of the
public may request and schedule a
meeting; (3) the format of E.O. 12866
meetings; (4) what type of information
or input is most helpful to receive
during an E.O. 12866 meeting; and (5)
what makes for an effective presentation
during an E.O. 12866 meeting.
Richard L. Revesz,
Administrator, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2024–17154 Filed 8–12–24; 8:45 am]
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1 https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eo/
neweomeeting.
2 https://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/Utilities/EO12866-Video-Transcript-english.pdf (in English);
and https://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/Utilities/
EO-12866-Video-Transcript-spanish.pdf (in
Spanish).
3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxsAFsgJ3I
(in English) and https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=9dRt4XxZ78c (in Spanish).
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Royalty Board
[Docket Nos. 19-CRB-0010-CD (2018-2021), 19-CRB-0011-SD (2018-2021)]
Distribution of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Cable Royalty Funds;
Distribution of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Satellite Royalty Funds
AGENCY: Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), Library of Congress.
ACTION: Notice announcing commencement of distribution proceedings with
request for Petitions to Participate.
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SUMMARY: The Copyright Royalty Judges (Judges) announce the
commencement of proceedings to determine distribution of 2018, 2019,
2020, and 2021 royalties deposited with the Copyright Office under the
cable service statutory license and the satellite carrier license. The
Judges also set the date by which all parties wishing to participate
and share
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in the distribution of cable or satellite retransmission royalties for
2018 through 2021, inclusive, must file Petitions to Participate and
pay the accompanying $150 filing fee. The Judges seek a single Petition
to Participate in either or both the allocation phase and distribution
phase of the cable royalty proceeding and a separate Petition to
Participate in either or both the allocation phase and the distribution
phase of the satellite royalty proceeding. Any party that fails to file
a petition to participate by the time set forth in this notice shall
not be a participant at any stage of either proceeding.
DATES: Petitions to Participate, the filing fee, and the additional
required filing are due on or before September 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The petition to participate form is available online in
eCRB, the Copyright Royalty Board's online electronic filing
application, at https://app.crb.gov/.
Instructions: The petition to participate process has been
simplified. Interested parties file a petition to participate by
completing and filing the petition to participate form in eCRB and
paying the fee in eCRB. Do not upload a petition to participate
document. Additional required information regarding claims shall be
filed in eCRB separately from the form and no later than the deadline
for filing the petition to participate.
Docket: For access to the dockets, go to eCRB, the Copyright
Royalty Board's electronic filing and case management system, at
https://app.crb.gov/, and search for Docket Nos. 19-CRB-0010-CD (2018-
2021) and 19-CRB-0011-SD (2018-2021).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anita Brown, CRB Program Specialist,
(202) 707-7658, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Twice each year, cable services and satellite carriers deposit with
the Copyright Office royalties payable for the privilege of
retransmitting over-the-air television and radio broadcast signals via
cable and satellite. 17 U.S.C. 111, 119. The Copyright Royalty Judges
(Judges) oversee distribution of the royalties to copyright owners
whose works are included in the retransmissions and who have filed a
timely claim for royalties. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 803(b)(1), the Judges
hereby give notice of the commencement of proceedings for distribution
of cable and satellite royalties deposited for broadcasts retransmitted
in 2018 through 2021 and call for interested parties to file Petitions
to Participate.
Any party wishing to receive royalties payable for 2018 through
2021 must file a Petition to Participate in each proceeding no later
than September 12, 2024. If an interested party fails to file a
Petition to Participate in response to this notice, that party will not
be eligible for distribution of royalties for 2018 through 2021 from
either the cable or the satellite fund. The Judges will resolve all
issues relating to distribution of cable and satellite royalty funds
for 2018 through 2021 in these proceedings, Docket No. 19-CRB-0010-CD
(2018-2021) and Docket No. 19-CRB-0011-SD (2018-2021). See 37 CFR
351.1(b)(2).
Commencement of Distribution Proceedings
The Judges have determined that controversies exist with regard to
distribution of the cable and satellite retransmission royalties that
licensees deposited for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Therefore, pursuant
to Section 804(b)(8) of the Copyright Act, the Judges are causing this
notice to be published in the Federal Register to announce the
commencement of cable and satellite distribution proceedings for the
years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
The Judges base their conclusion regarding 2018-2021 cable and
satellite fund controversies upon the entirety of the records,
including initial motions for partial distribution and the silence
following orders granting some of those motions. The parties have not
moved for further partial distribution despite reserving in their
motions ``the right to move for additional partial distributions . . .
after . . . any . . . disputes come into better focus.'' See, e.g.,
Motion of the Allocation Phase Parties for Partial Distribution of 2020
Satellite Royalty Funds, Docket No. 21-CRB-0009-SD (2020 SD) (Mar. 9,
2023).
Groups of claimants to the royalty funds, acting together and
represented by joint counsel, have surely by now made an effort to
negotiate a distribution scheme agreeable to all claimants. Apparently
unable to reach an agreement, the claimants have taken no further
action to seek further partial or final distribution of the funds.
In the present proceedings, groups of claimants have identified
themselves as arranged into program categories: Program Suppliers,
Joint Sports Claimants, Public Television Claimants/Public Broadcasting
Service, Commercial Television Claimants/National Association of
Broadcasters, Devotional Claimants, Canadian Claimants, American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music,
Inc. (BMI), SESAC, Inc., and National Public Radio. The Judges
recognize that other claimants might not be represented by joint
counsel for the groups of claimants. The Judges, therefore, provide
this public notice to alert anyone who claims an interest in cable or
satellite retransmission royalties deposited for royalty years 2018
through 2021, inclusive.
In order to share in the royalties at issue, any claimant not
joined in one of the groups identified above must file a Petition to
Participate, individually or jointly with other claimants. If, at a
later point in the proceedings, a claimant chooses to join a group
participating through joint counsel, that claimant may withdraw its
individual Petition to Participate. The prerequisites to participation
in a distribution proceeding are (1) the filing (individually or
jointly) of a valid claim for each royalty year at issue and (2) the
filing (individually or jointly) of a valid Petition to Participate.
Only attorneys who are members in good standing of the bar of one
or more states may represent parties before the Judges. All corporate
parties must appear through counsel. Only if the petitioning party is
an individual, may he or she represent himself or herself without legal
counsel. 37 CFR 303.2.
The Judges previously assigned separate docket numbers to the cable
and satellite distribution proceedings for the period 2018 through
2021. Upon receipt of all Petitions to Participate, the Judges
anticipate consolidating all cable proceedings for the years 2018
through 2021 under the captioned docket number 19-CRB-0010-CD (2018-
2021) and all satellite proceedings for the years 2018 through 2021
under the captioned docket number 19-CRB-0011-SD (2018-2021).
Petitions To Participate
Parties filing Petitions to Participate must comply with the
requirements of section 351.1(b) of the Copyright Royalty Board's
regulations.
In addition, each Petition to Participate filing must be
accompanied by a filing that sets forth for each claim year, the name
of each claimant, the corresponding claim number, an indication of
whether the claim is an individual or joint claim, and the program
category into which the claim may fall. Each Petition to Participate
shall be accompanied by a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in electronic
form consisting of the following columns: Claimant; Claim Year; Claim
Number; Claim Type; Allocation Phase Category.
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For ``Claim Type,'' participants shall enter ``I'' for an individual
claimant, ``J'' for a joint claimant, and ``W'' for a claimant listed
within a joint claim. The information in the column for ``Claim
Category'' shall be coded 1 for syndicated programming and movies, 2
for live college and professional team sports, 3 for programs produced
by local commercial television stations, 4 for public broadcasting, 5
for programs of a religious or devotional character, 6 for Canadian
programs retransmitted within the United States, 7 for musical works
carried on broadcast television signals, and 8 for National Public
Radio (all non-music content broadcast on NPR stations). Claimants'
characterization of their claims at this juncture is for ease of
administration only and is not dispositive of the ultimate disposition
of any claim.
Petitioners who seek to categorize any claim in a category not
listed in the previous paragraph shall assign a number (starting with
9) to each new category and shall include a brief description of each
new proposed category. Claimants, or claimant representatives, that
have filed claims in multiple years shall list the claims in separate
rows for each year. Claimants, or claimant representatives, that will
seek royalties in multiple claim categories shall list each claim in a
separate row for each separate claim category. Similarly, claimants, or
claimant representatives, that assert multiple claims in a given claim
year shall list each claim and claim number in a separate row.
Petitioners are responsible to make a sufficient showing of a
``significant interest'' in the royalty funds at issue to avoid
dismissal of the Petition to Participate.
Claimants whose claims do not exceed $1,000 in value and who
include a statement in their Petitions to Participate that they will
not seek distribution of more than $1,000 may file the Petition to
Participate without payment of the filing fee.
Participants should conform filed electronic documents to the
Judges' Guidelines for Electronic Documents, available online at
https://www.crb.gov/docs/Guidelines_for_Electronic_Documents.pdf.
Dated: August 8, 2024.
David P. Shaw,
Chief Copyright Royalty Judge.
[FR Doc. 2024-18029 Filed 8-12-24; 8:45 am]
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