The royalty fee payable under this subclause shall
be 0.5 of 1 per centum, regardless of the number of distant signal
equivalents, if any; and
(D) if the actual gross receipts paid by subscribers to a cable
system for the period covered by the statement, for the basic
service of providing secondary transmissions of primary
broadcast transmitters, are more than $80,000 but less than
$160,000, the royalty fee payable under this subclause shall be
(i) 0.5 of 1 per centum of any gross receipts up to $80,000; and (ii)
1 per centum of any gross receipts in excess of $80,000 but less
than $160,000, regardless of the number of distant signal
equivalents, if any.
(3) The Register of Copyrights shall receive all fees deposited
under this section and, after deducting the reasonable costs incurred
by the Copyright Office under this section, shall deposit the
balance in the Treasury of the United States, in such manner as the
Secretary of the Treasury directs. All funds held by the Secretary of
the Treasury shall be invested in interest-bearing United States
securities for later distribution with interest by the Copyright
Royalty Tribunal as provided by this title. The Register shall
submit to the Copyright royalty Tribunal, on a semiannual basis, a
compilation of all statements of account covering the relevant six-
month period provided by clause (2) of this subsection.
(4) The royalty fees thus deposited shall, in accordance with the
procedures provided by clause (5), be distributed to those among the
following copyright owners who claim that their works were the
subject of secondary transmissions by cable systems during the
relevant semiannual period:
(A) any such owner whose work was included in a secondary
transmission made by a cable system of a nonnetwork television
program in whole or in part beyond the local service area of the
primary transmitter; and
(B) any such owner whose work was included in a secondary
transmission identified in a special statement of account
deposited under clause (2)(A); and
(C) any such owner whose work was included in nonnetwork
programing consisting exclusively of aural signals carried by a
cable system in whole or in part beyond the local service area of
the primary transmitter of such programs.
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