A-3 revenue exemption by district is found in Table 2-a, Column (6). exempt entirely. III. COPYRIGHT FEE IMPACT OF PROPOSAL ON CONGRESSIONAL DIS- 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 n/c/r/a A-4 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 To summarize our findings thus far, application of 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 n/c/r/a A-5 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. n/e/r/a COPYRIGHT FEES FOR CABLE SYSTEMS IN ILLINOIS 19th DISTRICT (HON. TOM RAILSBACK) n/c/r/a Note: Systems in Congressional District provided by the Motion Picture Association of America. 'Derived by multiplying the product of the system's monthly subscription rate and the number of subscribers by 12. Based on unrounded copyright fee. TABLE 1-a |