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revenue exemption by district is found in Table 2-a, Column
All the systems in three Congressional Districts
(Massachusetts 4th, California 39th and New York 21st) are

(6).

exempt entirely.

III.

COPYRIGHT FEE IMPACT OF PROPOSAL ON CONGRESSIONAL DIS-
TRICT SYSTEMS

For the 12 systems in three Congressional Districts that remain liable by application of the TPT proposal, copyright fee payments amount to 0.70 percent of revenues, or 4.1 cents per subscriber per month. These data are presented in summary form by Congressional District and revenue classifications in Table 3. Tables 3-a through 3-f present the data for each cable system which remains liable for payment under the TPT proposal. The revenue classification section of Table 3 shows, that for systems which remain liable, the greatest relative fee impact is experienced by smaller systems with lowest annual revenues. As shown in Column (5), for the four systems in the under $160,000 class, copyright fees amount to 1.69 percent of revenues as contrasted with a weighted average liability for all systems of 0.70 percent. From Column (4), note that the absolute dollar liability for the four smaller systems with 2,631 total subscribers is higher ($3,426) than the liability for the one largest system with 10,504 subscribers ($2,100).

The disparities that result under the TPT proposal are also reflected by the data in Table 3-a (Illinois 19th

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CD). One cable system in Monmouth with 1,453 subscribers has a copyright liability of $2,834 on revenues of $112,462, or 2.52 percent and 16.3 cents per subscriber per month. The cable system in Moline, with 10,504 subscribers, has a copyright fee of only $2,100 on revenues of $749,986, or 0.28 percent and 1.7 cents per subscriber per month.

IV.

COMPARATIVE FEE IMPACT OF H.R. 2223 AND PROPOSAL ON
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SYSTEMS

To summarize our findings thus far, application of
the TPT proposal exempts 11 systems and almost $1.4 million in
system revenues from all liability. The copyright fee impact
in toto for systems in the three Congressional districts which
remain liable under the TPT proposal is lower than under H.R.
2223.1
Overall, liability is reduced in absolute dollars from
$35,328 under H.R. 2223 to $19,971 under TPT's proposal.
rate is reduced from 0.84 percent to 0.70 percent and the fee
per subscriber per month from 4.9 cents to 4.1 cents.

The

The "bottom line" result of the true effective rates is shown in Table 4. Copyright fees for the 12 systems in the three Congressional Districts that remain liable for payment

1 This effect is not necessarily true on a system-by-system
basis. For two small cable systems in Carthage and
Monmouth, Illinois (19th CD), liability amounts to $757
(0.50 percent and 3.2 cents per subscriber per month)
under the provisions of H. R. 2223. (See Table 1-a.)
Under TPT's proposal, these same two systems are liable
for $3,271 (2.16 percent and 13.6 cents per subscriber
per month). (See Table 3-a.)

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under TPT's proposal amount to 0.47 percent of the full 23

system revenue total or 2.8 cents per subscriber per month, as compared with 0.84 percent and 4.9 cents per subscriber per

month under H.R. 2223.

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COPYRIGHT FEES FOR

CABLE SYSTEMS IN ILLINOIS 19th DISTRICT (HON. TOM RAILSBACK)