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          Office 
            Extends Filing Date for Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing 
            RIAA Collective 
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             September 
              19 
              Due 
              date for comments on proposed regulations that will govern the RIAA 
              collective when it functions as the designated agent under provisions 
              of 17 U.S.C. 114 (read 
              details) 
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             September 
              27 
              Due 
              date for comments on proposed amendments to regulations governing 
              content and service of certain notices on the copyright owner of 
              a musical work (read 
              details) 
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             January 
              28, 2002 
              Close 
              of arbitration proceeding to set the rates and terms for the digital 
              public performance of sound recordings license (as it pertains to 
              webcasters) under 17 U.S.C. 114 and for the making of ephemeral 
              copies in furtherance of a digital public performance under 17 U.S.C. 
              112 (read details) 
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       Office 
        Extends Filing Date for Comments on Proposed Regulations Governing RIAA 
        Collective 
      In response 
        to a request by The American Federation of Musicians of the United States 
        and Canada and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, 
        the Copyright Office is extending the period to file comments to proposed 
        regulations that will govern the RIAA collective when it functions as 
        the designated agent receiving royalty payments and statements of accounts 
        from nonexempt,subscription digital transmission services that make digital 
        transmissions of sound recordings under the provisions of section 114 
        of the Copyright Act. (See NewsNet 126, 66 
        FR 38226.) The new date for comments and Notices of Intent to Participate 
        in a Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel Proceeding is September 19, 2001. 
        Parties who have previously filed comments may supplement those comments 
        or withdraw those comments and resubmit them in accordance with the extended 
        deadline for filing comments. (read 
        details)  
        
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