The Federal Express office will notify the Copyright Office upon receipt of a properly addressed package, and the Copyright Office will make arrangements to pick up the package the same day. Under no circumstances will the Office make arrangements to retrieve a package from any other Federal Express location or track a misdirected package. Each party bears the responsibility for insuring that the filings are in the Copyright Office by the deadline. The form and content of all motions, petitions, objections, oppositions, and replies filed with the Office must be in compliance with Secs. As provided in Sec.
Replies are due five business days from the date of filing of such oppositions.
Service of all motions, petitions, objections, oppositions, and replies must be made on counsel or the parties by means no slower than overnight express mail on the same day the pleading is filed. The 180-day arbitration period will be initiated on May 1, 2000. The schedule of the arbitration proceeding will be established by the CARP after the three arbitrators have been selected. Parties to a voluntary agreement, however, may designate an alternative schedule for setting rates and terms for the section 114 license as a provision of the settlement agreement. David O. Carson, General Counsel.