[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR251.64]

[Page 570]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
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PART 251--COPYRIGHT ARBITRATION ROYALTY PANEL RULES OF PROCEDURE--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart F--Rate Adjustment Proceedings
 
Sec. 251.64  Disposition of petition; initiation of arbitration proceeding.

    After the end of the 45-day precontroversy discovery period, and 
after the Librarian has ruled on all motions and objections filed under 
Sec. 251.45, the Librarian will determine the sufficiency of the 
petition, including, where appropriate, whether one or more of the 
petitioners' interests are ``significant.'' If the Librarian determines 
that a petition is significant, he or she will cause to be published in 
the Federal Register a declaration of a controversy accompanied by a 
notice of initiation of an arbitration proceeding. The same declaration 
and notice of initiation shall be made for noncommercial educational 
broadcasting and the satellite carrier compulsory license in accordance 
with 17 U.S.C. 118 and 119, respectively. Such notice shall, to the 
extent feasible, describe the nature, general structure, and schedule of 
the proceeding.

[59 FR 23981, May 9, 1994, as amended at 59 FR 63042, Dec. 7, 1994; 65 
FR 39820, June 28, 2000]