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[CITE: 47USC612]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VI--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 612. Syndicated exclusivity

    (a) The Federal Communications Commission shall initiate a combined 
inquiry and rulemaking proceeding for the purpose of--
        (1) determining the feasibility of imposing syndicated 
    exclusivity rules with respect to the delivery of syndicated 
    programming (as defined by the Commission) for private home viewing 
    of secondary transmissions by satellite of broadcast station signals 
    similar to the rules issued by the Commission with respect to 
    syndicated exclusivity and cable television; and
        (2) adopting such rules if the Commission considers the 
    imposition of such rules to be feasible.

    (b) In the event that the Commission adopts such rules, any willful 
and repeated secondary transmission made by a satellite carrier to the 
public of a primary transmission embodying the performance or display of 
a work which violates such Commission rules shall be subject to the 
remedies, sanctions, and penalties provided by subchapter V of this 
chapter and section 605 of this title.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, Sec. 712, as added Pub. L. 100-667, 
title II, Sec. 203, Nov. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 3958; amended Pub. L. 103-
414, title III, Sec. 304(a)(17), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4297.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-414 struck out ``, within 120 days 
after January 1, 1989,'' after ``The Federal Communications Commission 
shall''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Jan. 1, 1989, see section 206 of Pub. L. 100-667, 
set out as a note under section 119 of Title 17, Copyrights.
