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increase in subscriber rates—which have trailed behind the inflation of the past few years, particularly in Pennsylvania. Further, the Commission also is given authority to maintain the real constant dollar level of the royalty fee per subscriber.
This potentially is a most unfair situation and one which will act to require the public to protect and to subsidize the copyright owner to its own detriment.
In my judgment, Section 801(b)(2)(A) should be deleted from the bill. The Copyright Royalty Commission then should be confined to its proper and appropriate purpose, as set forth in this otherwise valuable, much-needed copyright revision legislation.
Joshua Eilberg.
