32068 Proposed Rules Federal Register Vol. 83, No. 133 Wednesday, July 11, 2018 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
[email protected]. Each can be annual statements of account with contains notices to the public of the proposed contacted by telephone by calling (202) respect to distribution, accompanied by issuance of rules and regulations. The 707–8350. royalty payments.8 The Register receives purpose of these notices is to give interested SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: all royalty payments and, after persons an opportunity to participate in the deducting the reasonable costs incurred rule making prior to the adoption of the final I. Background rules. for administering this license, deposits A. The Audio Home Recording Act of the balance with the Treasury of the 1992 and DART Royalty Funds United States.9 These royalty payments LIBRARY OF CONGRESS The Audio Home Recording Act of are divided between a sound recording fund and a musical works fund, which 1992 (AHRA) 1 amended title 17 to are in turn subdivided into various Copyright Office ‘‘provide a legal and administrative subfunds, referred to collectively as the framework within which digital audio DART subfunds.10 The royalty 37 CFR Part 201 recording technology may be made payments attributed to these subfunds available to consumers,’’ 2 including to [Docket No. 2018–6] are allocated to copyright owners implement a royalty payment system pursuant to distribution orders issued in Streamlining the Administration of regarding the importation, manufacture, proceedings before the CRJs, as DART Royalty Accounts and Electronic and distribution of digital audio described in section 1007 and in various Royalty Payment Processes recording devices or media.