-14 "copyright qualification" and "popularity" aspects of the proposal. These features of the proposal also suggest that the geographic location of cable systems would be an important determinant of the degree to which they would be liable for copyright payments. As noted above, the impact of TPT's proposal is likely to fall most heavily upon those systems which, due to the unavailability of local signals, necessarily will depend more heavily upon the carriage of distant signals. (See Table VI.) Tables IV-A through IV-E present the data for individual TPT systems in each of the five revenue classifications. IX. COMPARATIVE FEE IMPACT OF H.R. 2223 AND PROPOSAL ON Table V presents a side-by-side comparison of copyright liability under the provisions of H.R. 2223 and the TPT proposal. This brings together the data from Tables II and IV in summary fashion. As indicated therein, the real significance of the TPT proposal lies in comparing its effects on the various revenue classifications of systems. For the 142 systems under the H.R. 2223 fee schedule, the copyright fee impact is 1.48 percent, or 8.6 cents per subscriber per month. The comparable figures for the 78 systems liable for copyright fees under the TPT proposal are 2.35 percent and 13.2 cents. Reviewing the data for each revenue classification indicates higher fee impact under the TPT proposal for systems in all revenue classes which remain liable (but somewhat higher n/e/r/a -15 impact on systems in the lower revenue classes). For the 17 For example, the Table V also presents what would appear to be the "bottom line" of the TPT proposal, which is total copyright fees for TPT systems liable under the proposal (a) as a n/e/r/a -16 percentage of total TPT system subscriber revenues, and (b) n/c/r/a 1 Total Broadcast Revenue less commissions to agencies, 'Derived from Net Broadcast Revenue less sale of Source: Federal Communications Commission, Public n/e/r/a |