55 The Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988 added section 119.  Pub.  L. No. 100-667, 102 Stat. 3935, 3949.  The Copyright Royalty Tribunal Reform Act of 1993 amended subsections (b) and (c) of section 119 by substituting “Librarian of Congress” in lieu of “Copyright Royalty Tribunal” wherever it appeared and by making related conforming amendments.  Pub.  L. No. 103-198, 107 Stat. 2304, 2310.  The Copyright Royalty Tribunal Reform Act of 1993 also amended paragraph (c)(3) by deleting subparagraphs (B), (C), (E) and (F) and by redesignating subparagraph (D) as (B), (G) as (C) and (H) as (D).  The redesignated subparagraph (C) was amended in its entirety and paragraph (c)(4) was deleted. Id.

The Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1994 further amended section 119.  Pub.  L. No. 103-369, 108 Stat. 3477.  In 1997, technical corrections and clarifications were made to the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1994.  Pub.  L. No. 105-80, 111 Stat. 1529.  Those two acts amended section 119 as follows:  1) by deleting or replacing obsolete effective dates; 2) in subsection (a)(5), by adding subparagraph (D); 3) in subsection (a), by adding paragraphs (8), (9) and (10); 4) in subsection (b)(1)(B), by adjusting the royalty rate for retransmitted superstations; 5) in subsection (c)(3), by replacing subparagraph (B) with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 6) in subsections (d)(2) and (d)(6), by modifying the definition of “network station” and “satellite carrier”; and 7) in subsection (d), by adding paragraph 11 to define “local market.”

Pursuant to section 4 of the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1994, the changes made by that Act to section 119 of the United States Code ceased to be effective on December 31, 1999.  Pub.  L. No. 103-369, 108 Stat. 3477, 3481.  However, section 1003 of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 extended that date to December 31, 2004.  Pub.  L. No. 106-113, 113 Stat. 1501, app.  I at 1501A-527.

The Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 amended section 119 in the first sentence of subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2)(A), respectively, by inserting the words “and section 114(d)” after “of this subsection.”  Pub.  L. No. 104-39, 109 Stat. 336, 348.  In 1999, a technical amendment substituted “network station’s” for “network’s stations” in section 119(a)(8)(C)(ii).  Pub.  L. No. 106-44, 113 Stat. 221, 222.

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 amended section 119(a) (1) as follows:  1) by inserting “AND PBS SATELLITE FEED” after “SUPERSTATIONS” in the paragraph heading; 2) by inserting “performance or display of a work embodied in a primary transmission made by a superstation or by the Public Broadcasting Service satellite feed” in lieu of “primary transmission made by a superstation and embodying a performance or display of a work,” (see endnote 55, infra) and 3) by adding the last sentence, which begins “In the case of the Public Broadcasting Service.”