Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 113 Part 2.djvu/1063

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PUBLIC LAW 106-113—APPENDIX I 113 STAT. 150LA-545 (a) to engage in partnerships, joint ventures, and similar operating arrangements for the purpose of carrying out subsection (a). (2) HARMFUL INTERFERENCE.— The Commission shall ensure that no facility licensed or authoriz(;d under subsection (a) causes harmful interference to the primary users of that spectrum or to public safety spectrum use. (3) LIMITATION ON COMMISSION.— Except as provided in paragraphs (1) and (2), the Commission n:iay not restrict any entity granted a license or other authorization under subsection (a) from using any reasonable compression, reformatting, or other technology. (c) REPORT. —Not later than January 1, 2001, the Commission shall report to the Agriculture, Appropriations, and the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, on the extent to which licenses and other authorizations under subsection (a) have facilitated the delivery of local signals to satellite television subscribers in unserved and underserved local television markets. The report shall include— (1) an analysis of the extent to which local signals are being provided by direct-to-home satellite television providers and by other multichannel video program distributors; (2) an enumeration of the technical, (Economic, and other impediments each type of multichannel video programming distributor has encountered; and (3) recommendations for specific measures to facilitate the provision of local signals to subscribers in unserved and underserved markets by direct-to-home satellite television providers and by other distributors of multichannel video programming service. TITLE III—TRADEMARK CYBERPIRACY PREVENTION SEC. 3001. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES. (a) SHORT TITLE. —This title may be cited as the "Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act". (b) REFERENCES TO THE TRADEMARK ACT OF 1946.— Any ref- erence in this title to the Trademark Act of 1946 shall be a reference to the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain international conventions, and for other purposes", approved July 5, 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.). SEC. 3002. CYBERPIRACY PREVENTION. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1125) is amended by inserting at the end the following: "(d)(1)(A) A person shall be liable in a civil action by the owner of a mark, including a personal name; which is protected as a mark under this section, if, without iregard to the goods or services of the parties, that person— "(i) has a bad faith intent to prolit from that mark, including a personal name which is protected as a mark under this section; and