In 1997, at the request of Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Copyright Office prepared an extensive report analyzing compulsory licensing of television broadcast programming. See, A Review of the Copyright Licensing Regimes Covering Retransmission of Broadcast Signals (1997). Although the report focused principally on cable and satellite retransmissions, we did consider the advisability of a statutory licensing regime for Internet retransmissions of both radio and television broadcast stations. We solicited comment from the public on the issue, including public hearings at which copyright owners, broadcasters, and certain webcasting pioneers testified.