Regarding the proposed petition to the Copyright Royalty Judges to institute a sliding scale reimbursement for artists to redistribute top-40 windfall royalties to new, emerging, and small artists so as to support the demand for the larger number of gainfully employed recording, performing, and writing artists prior to the introduction of mass consumer copying technologies, please see below.

Is there any reason these proposals should not be made part of the Best Case Scenarios for Copyright?

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June 22, 2016 Issue 146

COPYRIGHT ROYALTY JUDGES CLARIFY RULE REGARDING REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL STATIONS (81 FR 40190)

The Copyright Royalty Judges are announcing a technical amendment clarifying the rule announced on May 19, 2016, that relaxes certain reporting requirements for educational stations that pay no more than the minimum fee for the use of sound recordings under the statutory licenses in Sections 112 and 114 of the Copyright Act. The new rule took effect May 19. For details, see:

https://www.loc.gov/crb/fedreg/2016/81fr40190.pdf

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