3.0.0 2408 2019-11-15T21:33:33Z 2019-11-15T21:33:33Z House H HR 2005-05-17 109 hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing hsju03 Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Referred to 2005-07-01T20:59:33Z Referred to 2005-05-17T12:57:00Z 2005-07-01 hsju03 Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. Committee 2005-05-17 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2005-05-17 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2005-05-17 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress L000397 Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16] ZOE LOFGREN D CA 16 N D000429 Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4] JOHN DOOLITTLE R CA T. 4 2005-05-17 True Commerce Administrative fees Administrative procedure Advertising Congress Congressional agencies Copyright Economics and Public Finance Electronic data interchange Electronic government information Fees Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Intellectual property Law Library of Congress Sales promotion Science, Technology, Communications Commerce 00 2005-05-17 Introduced in House 2005-07-12T20:32:19Z Public Domain Enhancement Act - Requires the Register of Copyrights to charge a fee of $1 for maintaining in force the copyright in any published U.S. work. Requires the fee to be due 50 years after the date of first publication or on December 31, 2006, whichever occurs later, and every ten years thereafter until the end of the copyright term. Terminates the copyright unless payment of the applicable maintenance fee is received in the Copyright Office on or before its due date or within a grace period of six months thereafter.

Deems any ancillary or promotional work used in connection with the maintained work, such as an advertisement for a motion picture, also to be maintained in force.

Requires the: (1) maintenance fee to be accompanied by a form prescribed by the Register; and (2) the Register to establish procedures to minimize the burden of submitting the form, including procedures to allow the electronic submission of the form, and to make the information contained in such forms easily accessible to the public.

]]> Public Domain Enhancement Act Short Titles as Introduced Public Domain Enhancement Act Display Title Public Domain Enhancement Act Official Title as Introduced To amend title 17, United States Code, to allow abandoned copyrighted works to enter the public domain after 50 years. Introduced in House 2005-05-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109hr2408ih/xml/BILLS-109hr2408ih.xml 2005-07-01 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.