---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 201.12"
title: "37"
number: "201.12"
heading: "Recordation of certain contracts by cable systems located outside of the forty-eight contiguous States."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/201.12"
---

# §201.12. Recordation of certain contracts by cable systems located outside of the forty-eight contiguous States.

- (a) Written, nonprofit contracts providing for the equitable sharing of costs of videotapes and their transfer, as identified in [17 U.S.C. 111(e)(2)](/usc/17/111.md?p=e-2), will be filed in the Copyright Office Licensing Section by recordation upon payment of the prescribed fee. The document submitted for recordation shall meet the following requirements:
  - (1) It shall be an original instrument of contract; or it shall be a copy of an original, accompanied by a certification that shall include a legally binding signature, including an electronic signature as defined in [15 U.S.C. 7006](/usc/15/7006.md), of at least one of the parties to the contract, or an authorized representative of that party, that the reproduction is a true copy;
  - (2) It shall bear the signatures of all persons identified as parties to the contract, or of their authorized agents or representatives;
  - (3) It shall be complete on its face, and shall include any schedules, appendixes, or other attachments referred to in the instrument as being part of it; and
  - (4) It shall be clearly identified, in its body or a covering transmittal letter, as being submitted for recordation under [17 U.S.C. 111(e)](/usc/17/111.md?p=e).
- (b) The fee for recordation of a document is prescribed in [§ 201.3(e)](/cfr/37/201.3.md?p=e).
- (c) The date of recordation is the date when all of the elements required for recordation, including the prescribed fee, have been received in the Copyright Office. A document is filed in the Copyright Office and a filing in the Copyright Office takes place on the date of recordation. After recordation the document is returned to the sender with a certificate of recordation.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 53961, Oct. 4, 1977, as amended at 56 FR 59885, Nov. 26, 1991; 64 FR 29521, June 1, 1999; 82 FR 9357, Feb. 6, 2017; 85 FR 19667, Apr. 8, 2020; 86 FR 32642, June 22, 2021]

### Authority

Authority: 17 U.S.C. 702. Section 201.10 also issued under 17 U.S.C. 304.

### Amendments

[42 FR 53961, Oct. 4, 1977, as amended at 56 FR 59885, Nov. 26, 1991; 64 FR 29521, June 1, 1999; 82 FR 9357, Feb. 6, 2017; 85 FR 19667, Apr. 8, 2020; 86 FR 32642, June 22, 2021]