Legal Opinion
Cablevision Systems Development Company v. Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., U.S. Copyright Office and Its Register
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 5, 1988No. 86-5552 to 86-5554, 86-5597 and 86-5635 to 86-5637PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge:
The Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq. (1982 & Supp. IV 1986), grants cable television systems a license to retransmit copyrighted broadcast 1 programming to their subscribers, id. § 111(c)(1), and requires in return that the systems deposit with the Copyright Office a fee equal to a “specified percentage[ ] of the gross receipts from subscribers to the cable service ... for the basic service of providing secondary transmissions of primary broadcast transmitters,” id. § 111(d)(1)(B). 2 In a series of…
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