• Congress Passes STELA

• Copyright Office Announces Interim Rules Reflecting Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010.

• Intermediary represents more devotional broadcasters in copyright royalty proceedings than any other entity worldwide.

• Intermediary retrieves TV show retransmission royalties from the past.

• Intermediary represents more sports leagues and national governing bodies of sports in copyright royalty matters than any other entity worldwide.

• American Public Television enters exclusive arrangement with Intermediary to assist APT’s library of 300 titles and 10,000 hours of quality programming.

Highlights

• American Public Television & Intermediary to Help Public TV Producers Claim Portion of $180 Million in Copyright Royalties

  March 1, 2011 — Boston, MA & Washington, DC — American Public Television (“APT”) and Intermediary Copyright Royalty Services (“Intermediary”) announce their joint efforts to assist public television producers in claiming portions of millions of dollars in government-collected retransmission royalties. Royalties are paid out of large distribution pools managed by the U.S. Copyright Office. Last [...]

• Television’s Multi-Million Dollar Secret

  Over $270 million is collected annually and then distributed by the U.S. government to pay television program owners copyright royalties for retransmitted copies of their shows. Read Attorney Ted Hammerman’s article in the International Documentary Association’s publication, Documentary, Winter 2011.

Services

Changing times require creative solutions. Copyright holders face fierce competition, rapidly changing technology, and complex government regulation. Traditional approaches to legal practice are often inadequate to the task. Clients want results. Intermediary provides them.

Intermediary has the skills and experience necessary to maximize the probability of success in negotiating settlements and collecting copyright and retransmission royalties and additional fees for your content.

Our strategies are designed not just to win in settlement negotiations, but to better position our clients after disputes are resolved. In transactions, we utilize changing market conditions to maximize the value of your intellectual property.

In U.S. and international government advocacy, we employ innovative strategies to succeed where others have not. We use copyright regulation as an opportunity for, not an obstacle to, success.

Intermediary looks beyond the obvious to find creative solutions for our clients. We help to achieve business objectives.