THE PRICE POINT
The Price Point | Archaic STELAR Must Be Allowed To Sunset
Hank Price: “Allowing STELAR to finally die a natural death at the end of this year means the free market system would return, bringing fairness along for good measure. Sunsetting STELAR means DirecTV would no longer have the right to retransmit stations without their permission.
The U.S. Copyright Office is proposing that Congress phase out the cable and satellite statutory licenses in the Copyright Act, calling them “an artifact of an earlier era.” The so-called compulsory license, established in 1976, allows cable and satellite operators to distribute broadcast television signals in return for paying a one-size-fits-all copyright fee to the Copyright Royalty Tribunal.
