---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 388.3"
title: "37"
number: "388.3"
heading: "Compulsory license fees for coin-operated phonorecord players."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/388.3"
---

# §388.3. Compulsory license fees for coin-operated phonorecord players.

- (a) Commencing January 1, 1982, the annual compulsory license fee for a coin-operated phonorecord player shall be $25.
- (b) Commencing January 1, 1984, the annual compulsory license fee for a coin-operated phonorecord player shall be $50.
- (c) Commencing January 1, 1987, the annual compulsory license fee for a coin-operated phonorecord player shall be $63.
- (d) If performances are made available on a particular coin-operated phonorecord player for the first time after July 1 of any year, the compulsory license fee for the remainder of that year shall be one half of the annual rate of paragraph [(a)](#a), [(b)](#b), or [(c)](#c) of this section, whichever is applicable.
- (e) Commencing January 1, 1990, the annual compulsory license fee for a coin-operated phonorecord player is suspended through December 31, 1999, or until such earlier or later time as the March 1990 license agreement between AMOA and ASCAP/BMI/SESAC is terminated.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 17 U.S.C. 116, 801(b)(1).

### Source

Source: 81 FR 83141, Nov. 21, 2016, unless otherwise noted.