[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR257.4]

[Page 596-597]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                                CONGRESS
 
PART 257--FILING OF CLAIMS TO SATELLITE CARRIER ROYALTY FEES--Table of 
Contents
 
Sec. 257.4  Compliance with statutory dates.

    (a) Claims filed with the Copyright Office shall be considered 
timely filed only if:
    (1) They are hand delivered, either by the claimant, the claimant's 
agent, or a private delivery carrier, to: Office of the Register of 
Copyrights, Room 403, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence 
Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540, during normal business hours during 
the month of July; or
    (2) They are addressed to: Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, P.O. 
Box 70977, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024, and are deposited 
with sufficient postage with the United States Postal Service and bear a 
July U.S. postmark.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), in any year in which July 31 
falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or other nonbusiness day within 
the District of Columbia or the Federal Government, claims received by 
the Copyright Office by the first business day in August, or properly 
addressed and deposited with sufficient postage with the United States 
Postal Service and postmarked by the first business day in August, shall 
be considered timely filed.
    (c) Claims dated only with a business meter that are received after 
July 31, will not be accepted as having been timely filed.
    (d) No claim may be filed by facsimile transmission.
    (e) In the event that a properly addressed and mailed claim is not 
timely received by the Copyright Office, a claimant may nonetheless 
prove that the claim was properly filed if it was sent by certified mail 
return receipt requested, and the claimant can provide a receipt bearing 
a July date stamp of the U.S. Postal Service, except where paragraph (b) 
of this section applies. No affidavit of an officer or employee of the 
claimant, or of a U.S. postal

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worker will be accepted in lieu of the receipt.

[59 FR 23993, May 9, 1994, as amended at 59 FR 63043, Dec. 7, 1994; 61 
FR 63718, Dec. 2, 1996; 63 FR 30636, June 5, 1998; 65 FR 39820, June 28, 
2000]