(vi) in paragraph (8), as so redesig-
nated, by striking ‘‘122(j)’’ and inserting 
‘‘122(g)’’; and 
(vii) in paragraph (9), as so redesig-
nated, by striking ‘‘325(b)(7)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘325’’; and 
(F) in subsection (k), as so redesignated, 
by striking paragraph (5). 
(2) SECTION 623.—Section 623 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 543) is amended— 
(A) by striking subsections (a), (b), (c), 
(d), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), and (o); 
(B) by redesignating subsections (e) and 
(f) as subsections (a) and (b), respectively; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) REGULATION OF RATES AND BROADCAST SIG-
NAL CARRIAGE.—No Federal agency, State, or fran-
chising authority may regulate— 
‘‘(1) the rates for the provision of the service of 
a multichannel video programming distributor; or 
‘‘(2) the retransmission of television broadcast 
signals by a multichannel video programming dis-
tributor except in accordance with the requirements 
of sections 325, 338, 614, and 615.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
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(1) SECTION 343.—Section 343 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 343) is redesig-
nated as section 339 of such Act. 
(2) SECTION 615.—Section 615 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 535) is amended— 
(A) by striking subsection (f); and 
(B) in subsection (l), by striking para-
graph (1) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) 
QUALIFIED
NONCOMMERCIAL
EDU-
CATIONAL TELEVISION STATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified 
noncommercial educational television station’ 
means any full-power television broadcast sta-
tion which— 
‘‘(i) under the rules and regulations of 
the Commission in effect on March 29, 
1990, is licensed by the Commission as a 
noncommercial 
educational 
television 
broadcast station and is owned and oper-
ated by a public agency, nonprofit founda-
tion, nonprofit corporation, or nonprofit 
association; or 
‘‘(ii) is owned and operated by a mu-
nicipality and transmits predominantly 
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noncommercial programs for educational 
purposes. 
‘‘(B) INCLUSIONS.—Such term includes— 
‘‘(i) the translator of any noncommer-
cial educational television station with five 
watts or higher power serving the franchise 
area; 
‘‘(ii) a full-service station or trans-
lator if such station or translator is li-
censed to a channel reserved for non-
commercial educational use pursuant to 
section 73.606 of title 47, Code of Federal 
Regulations, or any successor regulations 
thereto; and 
‘‘(iii) such stations and translators op-
erating on channels not so reserved as the 
Commission determines are qualified as 
noncommercial educational stations.’’. 
(3) SECTION 621.—Section 621(b)(3)(D) of the 
Communications 
Act 
of 
1934 
(47 
U.S.C. 
541(b)(3)(D)) is amended by striking ‘‘sections 611 
and 612’’ and inserting ‘‘section 611’’. 
(4) SECTION 622.—Section 622(c) of the Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 542(c)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘pursuant to section 623’’. 
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(5) SECTION 625.—Section 625 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 545) is amended— 
(A) in subsection (c)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘rearrange, replace,’’ 
and inserting ‘‘replace’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; 
or’’ and inserting a period; 
(iii) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(iv) by striking ‘‘franchise if—’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘such service is no 
longer’’ and inserting ‘‘franchise if such 
service is no longer’’; and 
(B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘, if the 
rates’’ and all that follows and inserting a pe-
riod. 
(6) SECTION 632.—Section 632(c) of the Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 552(c)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘section 623(b)(6) or’’. 
(7) SECTION 638.—Section 638 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 558) is amended 
by striking ‘‘governmental use or on any other chan-
nel obtained under section 612 or under similar ar-
rangements’’ and inserting ‘‘or governmental use’’. 
(8) SECTION 653.—Section 653 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 573) is amended— 
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(A) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (C), by adding 
‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(ii) by striking subparagraph (D) and 
redesignating subparagraph (E) as sub-
paragraph (D); and 
(B) in subsection (c)(1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘(other than sub-
section (a) thereof)’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘623(f)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘623(b)’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘, and section 325 of title III,’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (C)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘sections 612 and 
617’’ and inserting ‘‘section 617’’; 
and 
(II) by striking ‘‘623(f)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘623(b)’’. 
SEC. 4. BINDING ARBITRATION. 
Section 325 of the Communications Act of 1934, as 
amended by sections 2 and 3, is further amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) BINDING ARBITRATION.— 
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‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—Beginning on the date 
that is 90 days after the date on which this sub-
section takes effect, the Commission shall, by regula-
tion— 
‘‘(A) provide that the Commission may re-
quire a television broadcast station and multi-
channel video programming distributor negoti-
ating a marketplace agreement (and any large 
station group or qualified MVPD buying group 
negotiating for a marketplace agreement on be-
half of a television broadcast station or multi-
channel video programming distributor, respec-
tively) to submit to binding arbitration— 
‘‘(i) upon— 
‘‘(I) a declaration of an impasse 
in negotiations by all parties negoti-
ating the agreement; 
‘‘(II) a preliminary finding by the 
Commission of a violation of the good 
faith requirement under subsection 
(f)(1)(A)(i); or 
‘‘(III) the failure of the television 
broadcast station and multichannel 
programming distributor (or any large 
station group or qualified MVPD buy-
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ing group negotiating for a market-
place agreement on behalf of a tele-
vision broadcast station or multi-
channel 
video 
programming 
dis-
tributor, respectively) to reach a mar-
ketplace agreement by the date that is 
60 days after the date on which a 
marketplace agreement entered into 
by the television broadcast station and 
the multichannel video programming 
distributor (or by any large station 
group or qualified MVPD buying 
group negotiating for a marketplace 
agreement on behalf of a television 
broadcast station or multichannel 
video programming distributor, re-
spectively) expires; and 
‘‘(ii) in a form substantially similar to 
that imposed in Section VII of Appendix A 
of the Memorandum Opinion and Order in 
the matter of Applications of Comcast Cor-
poration, General Electric Company, and 
NBC Universal, Inc. For Consent to As-
sign Licenses and Transfer Control of Li-
censees that was adopted by the Commis-
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sion on January 18, 2011 (FCC 11–4); 
and 
‘‘(B) provide that the Commission may re-
quire a multichannel video programming dis-
tributor to retransmit a signal of a television 
broadcast station and the television broadcast 
station to permit the retransmission of that sig-
nal— 
‘‘(i) during any period in which the 
television broadcast station and the multi-
channel video programming distributor (or 
any large station group or qualified MVPD 
buying group negotiating for a marketplace 
agreement on behalf of a television broad-
cast station or multichannel video pro-
gramming distributor, respectively) are re-
quired to submit to binding arbitration 
under subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(ii) in accordance with the interim 
carriage provisions imposed in Section VII 
of Appendix A of the Memorandum Opin-
ion and Order described under subpara-
graph (A)(ii). 
‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 
terms ‘large station group’, ‘marketplace agreement’, 
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‘multichannel video programming distributor’, ‘quali-
fied MVPD buying group’, and ‘television broadcast 
station’ have the meaning given those terms in sub-
section (f).’’. 
SEC. 5. REPEAL OF REGULATORY INTERVENTION IN THE 
COPYRIGHT ACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) REPEAL.—Section 119 of title 17, United 
States Code, is hereby repealed. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of 
sections at the beginning of chapter 1 of title 17, 
United States Code, is amended by striking the item 
related to section 119. 
(b) SECTION 111.—Section 111 of title 17, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(4), by striking ‘‘section 
119 or’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘broadcast station licensed 
by the Federal Communications Commission or 
by an appropriate governmental authority of 
Canada or Mexico’’ and inserting ‘‘qualified 
broadcast station’’ each place it appears; and 
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(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘where 
the carriage’’ and all that follows before the pe-
riod at the end; 
(3) in subsection (d)(1)(A), by striking the sec-
ond sentence; and 
(4) in subsection (f)— 
(A) 
in 
paragraph 
(4), 
by 
striking 
‘‘122(j)(2)(C)’’ and inserting ‘‘122(g)(2)(C)’’; 
and 
(B) by adding at the end, the following: 
‘‘(14) QUALIFIED
BROADCAST
STATION.—The 
term ‘qualified broadcast station’ means a broadcast 
station licensed by the Federal Communications 
Commission, or by an appropriate governmental au-
thority of Canada or Mexico, that elects mandatory 
carriage under section 614 or 615 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934. 
‘‘(15) SATELLITE
CARRIER.—The term ‘sat-
ellite carrier’ means an entity that uses the facilities 
of a satellite or satellite service licensed by the Fed-
eral Communications Commission and operates in 
the Fixed-Satellite Service or the Direct Broadcast 
Satellite Service under part 25 of title 47, Code of 
Federal Regulations, to establish and operate a 
channel of communications for point-to-multipoint 
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distribution of television station signals, and that 
owns or leases a capacity or service on a satellite in 
order to provide such point-to-multipoint distribu-
tion, except to the extent that such entity provides 
such distribution pursuant to tariff under the Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.), 
other than for private home viewing.’’. 
(c) SECTION 122.—Section 122 of title 17, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘television broadcast stations’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘qualified tele-
vision broadcast stations’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘television broadcast station’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘qualified tele-
vision broadcast station’’; 
(3) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
the semicolon at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; 
(ii) by striking subparagraph (B); and 
(iii) by redesignating subparagraph 
(C) as subparagraph (B); 
(B) by striking paragraphs (2), (3), and 
(5); 
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(C) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 
paragraph (2); and 
(D) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘SPECIAL
EXCEPTIONS.—A sec-
ondary transmission of a performance or dis-
play’’ and all that follows through ‘‘In the case 
of a system’’ and inserting ‘‘SPECIAL EXCEP-
TION.—In the case of a system’’; 
(4) by striking subsections (b), (f ), and (g); 
(5) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), 
(h), (i), and (j) as subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), 
and (g), respectively; 
(6) in subsection (c), as so redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘television broadcast sta-
tion’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘qualified television broadcast station’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘television broadcast sig-
nals’’ and inserting ‘‘signal of a qualified tele-
vision broadcast stations’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘, if the satellite carrier’’ 
and all that follows before the period at the 
end; 
(7) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘television broadcast station’’ each place it 
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