3.0.0 2500 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z Senate S S 2007-12-18 110 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2008-07-29T20:48:38Z Referred to 2007-12-18T22:25:08Z Performance Rights Act 110 4789 HR 2008-06-26 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote . Related bill CRS 2008-07-29 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Committee 2007-12-18 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15918) IntroReferral 2007-12-18 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15917-15918) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-12-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT N H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2007-12-18 True F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2007-12-18 True C001071 Sen. Corker, Bob [R-TN] Bob Corker R TN 2007-12-18 True A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN 2008-01-28 False Commerce Arts, Culture, Religion Copyright Fees Intellectual property Law Licenses Music Public broadcasting Radio broadcasting Radio stations Sound recording and reproducing Commerce 00 2007-12-18 Introduced in Senate 2008-02-09T15:11:43Z Performance Rights Act - Amends federal copyright law to: (1) grant performers of sound recordings equal rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters; (2) establish a flat annual fee in lieu of payment of royalties for individual terrestrial broadcast stations with gross revenues of less than $1.25 million and for non-commercial, public broadcast stations; (3) grant an exemption from royalty payments for broadcasts of religious services and for incidental uses of musical sound recordings; and (4) grant terrestrial broadcast stations that make limited feature uses of sound recordings a per program license option.

Provides that nothing in this Act shall adversely affect the public performance rights or royalties payable to songwriters or copyright owners of musical works.

]]> Performance Rights Act Display Title Performance Rights Act Short Titles as Introduced Performance Rights Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide fair compensation to artists for use of their sound recordings. Introduced in Senate 2007-12-18T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2500is/xml/BILLS-110s2500is.xml 2008-07-29 Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. 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.