CO Issues Interim Rules, NPRM for Music Modernization Act
The Copyright Office issued interim rules and an NPRM Wednesday for the Music Modernization Act (see 2009090054). Effective Oct. 19, an interim rule governs “notices of license, data collection efforts, reports of usage and payment by digital music provider blanket…
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licensees and related records of use, notices of nonblanket activity and reports of usage by significant nonblanket licensees, and data collection efforts by musical work copyright owners.” Also effective Oct. 19, another interim rule governs “obligations of the mechanical licensing collective (MLC) to report and distribute royalties paid by digital music providers.” The NPRM involves “categories of information to be included in the public musical works database, the usability, interoperability, and usage restrictions of the database, and proposed regulations in connection with the Office’s general regulatory authority related to ensuring appropriate transparency of the mechanical licensing collective itself.” Comments are due Oct. 19.