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Low Power FM
Licensing Information
Section 118 of the Copyright Act establishes a
compulsory license for public performances of musical
compositions broadcast over non-commercial educational
broadcasting stations. License fees for this compulsory
license are established in five-year intervals by the
Librarian of Congress.
This compulsory license grants the permission to
publicly perform non-dramatic renditions of the musical
compositions; the performance rights to which SESAC
controls and/or is empowered to license solely by radio
transmissions.
The license fee for the public performance of copyrighted
compositions represented by SESAC over non-commercial,
educational low power FM broadcasting entities is $116.00 for the
year 2008. The fee will be adjusted annually and published in
the Federal Register in early December as outlined at:
http://www.loc.gov/crb/fedreg/2007/72fr67646.pdf.
Further information may be obtained at the
Copyright Office website:
http://www.copyright.gov/carp/#commercial.
SESAC invoices stations for this compulsory license fee
for the period of January 1, 2008 through December 31,
2008. A SESAC acknowledgment letter and copies of
cancelled checks or credit card transaction receipts are
confirmation that the station is licensed by SESAC.
Please contact Broadcast Licensing at 800-826-9996 or
via SESAC.com if you have questions regarding the Low
Power FM Licensing process.
Request a License Agreement
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