[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR251.2]

[Page 613]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
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PART 251_COPYRIGHT ARBITRATION ROYALTY PANEL RULES OF PROCEDURE--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A_Organization
 
Sec. 251.2  Purpose of Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels.

    The Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register 
of Copyrights, may appoint and convene a Copyright Arbitration Royalty 
Panel (CARP) for the following purposes:
    (a) To make determinations concerning royalty rates for the cable 
compulsory license, 17 U.S.C. 111;
    (b) To make determinations concerning royalty rates and terms for 
making ephemeral recordings, 17 U.S.C. 112(e);
    (c) To make determinations concerning royalty rates and terms for 
the public performance of sound recordings by certain digital audio 
transmissions, 17 U.S.C. 114;
    (d) To make determinations concerning royalty rates for making and 
distributing phonorecords, and royalty rates and terms for digital 
transmissions that constitute digital phonorecord deliveries, 17 U.S.C. 
115;
    (e) To make determinations concerning royalty rates for coin-
operated phonorecord players (jukeboxes) whenever a negotiated license 
expires or is terminated and is not replaced by another such license 
agreement, 17 U.S.C. 116;
    (f) To make determinations concerning royalty rates and terms for 
the use by noncommercial educational broadcast stations for certain 
copyrighted works, 17 U.S.C. 118;
    (g) To make determinations concerning royalty rates for the 
satellite carrier compulsory license, 17 U.S.C. 119; and
    (h) To make determinations concerning the distribution of cable and 
satellite carrier royalty fees and digital audio recording devices and 
media payments deposited with the Register of Copyrights, 17 U.S.C. 111, 
119, and chapter 10, respectively.

[61 FR 37215, July 17, 1996, as amended at 63 FR 65556, Nov. 27, 1998]