2.2: Online Filing for Statutory Licenses and Obligations

Initiate online licensing filing for statements of account.

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Those entities that are subject to the terms of certain statutory licenses and obligations must file statements of account with the Copyright Office and pay royalty fees for future disbursement to eligible copyright owners. Statements of account have primarily been filed in paper form. Over 90 percent of royalty fees, on the other hand, are deposited by electronic funds transfer. Electronic filing of statements of account would increase efficiencies for the filers, the Office, and the royalty recipients, and would make licensing documents more rapidly and readily available to copyright owners and other interested parties. Means: The means to accomplish this objective include implementing a new IT systems infrastructure, now in development, in FY 2006.

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