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The Digital Performance Royalties Fund (DPR) was established to collect and distribute monies to non-featured musicians and non-featured vocalists pursuant to the DPRA (Digital Performance Rights Amendment) and DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). These acts require the allocation of 5% of compulsory license fees to non-featured performers, 2 1/2 % to non-featured musicians, and 2 1/2% to non-featured vocalists collected from various digital distributions of sound recordings. The first payments to the DPR were for the non-featured performers a share of the compulsory license fees collected from February, 1996 through March, 2000 from the cable and satellite subscription services. In addition to the ongoing payments from these sources, future revenue from the statutory rates collected for webcasting will be added to these payments.
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