3.0.0 379 2023-01-11T13:17:23Z 2023-01-11T13:17:23Z Senate S S 2009-02-04 111 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2009-10-15T20:08:38Z Markup by 2009-10-15T16:55:45Z Referred to 2009-02-04T19:51:03Z Performance Rights Act 111 848 HR 2010-12-14 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 405. Related bill CRS Related bill House 2009-10-15 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 181. Calendars 2009-10-15 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with amendments. Without written report. Committee 2009-10-15 Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with amendments. Without written report. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssju00 Judiciary Committee 2009-10-15 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably. Committee 2009-02-04 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1545-1546) IntroReferral 2009-02-04 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1544-1545) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2009-02-04 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 2009-02-04 True F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2009-02-04 True C001071 Sen. Corker, Bob [R-TN] Bob Corker R TN 2009-02-04 True B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA 2009-02-04 True A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN 2009-02-09 False S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2009-03-12 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2010-04-14 False C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2010-07-28 False 2010-07-15T04:00:00Z S. 379, Performance Rights Act http://www.cbo.gov/publication/21634 <p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Seante Committee on the Judiciary on October 15, 2010</p> 2010-07-15T04:00:00Z S. 379, Performance Rights Act https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21634 Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Seante Committee on the Judiciary on October 15, 2010 Commerce Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies Intellectual property Licensing and registrations Music Performing arts Religion Sound recording User charges and fees Commerce 00 2009-02-04 Introduced in Senate 2009-02-20T19:45:33Z Performance Rights Act - Amends federal copyright law to: (1) grant performers of sound recordings equal rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters; and (2) modify the circumstances under which the public performance of a sound recording is subject to statutory licensing.

Establishes 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 noncommercial, public broadcast stations. Grants: (1) an exemption from royalty payments for broadcasts of religious services and for incidental uses of musical sound recordings; and (2) terrestrial broadcast stations that make limited feature uses of sound recordings a per program license option.

Prohibits anything in this Act from adversely affecting the public performance rights or royalties payable to songwriters or copyright owners of musical works.

]]> 01 2009-10-15 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2010-03-17T17:00:02Z Performance Rights Act - (Sec. 2) Amends federal copyright law to: (1) grant performers of sound recordings equal rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters (AM and FM radio); and (2) modify the circumstances under which the public performance of a sound recording is subject to statutory licensing.

(Sec. 3) Establishes an annual flat fee in lieu of royalty payments for certain small, noncommercial, educational, and religious terrestrial broadcast stations that have annual revenues falling within specified ranges.

Prohibits such annual fees from being taken into account in any Copyright Royalty Board rate-setting proceeding or in any other federal government proceeding.

Includes broadcasts of religious services or incidental uses of musical sound recordings publicly by digital audio transmission among performances of a sound recording that are not copyright infringements.

(Sec. 4) Provides a per program license option for terrestrial broadcast stations that make limited feature uses of sound recordings.

(Sec. 5) Prohibits: (1) license fees payable for the public performance of sound recordings from being used in any governmental proceeding to set the license fees payable to copyright owners of musical works for the public performance of their works to adversely affect such license fees; (2) a licensee of a sound recording from publicly performing such sound recording unless a license has been granted for the public performance of any copyrighted musical work contained in the sound recording; (3) anything in this Act from adversely affecting the public performance rights or royalties payable to songwriters or copyright owners of musical works; and (4) rates established by the Copyright Royalty Judges for the public performance of sound recordings from being used in any governmental proceeding to adversely affect license fees payable to copyright owners of musical works for the public performance of their works by terrestrial broadcast stations.

(Sec. 6) Entitles a featured recording artist who performs on a sound recording that has been licensed for public performance by means of an audio transmission to payments from the sound recording's copyright owner in accordance with the terms of the artist's contract.

Requires: (1) sound recording copyright owners to deposit 1% of the receipts from their licensing of public performance rights by means of an audio transmission into the American Federation of Musicians and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund for distribution to nonfeatured performers who have performed on sound recordings; and (2) the Fund to pay 50% to nonfeatured musicians and 50% to nonfeatured vocalists.

(Sec. 7) Amends the standard for ephemeral/temporary copies of sound recording license rates to: (1) apply rates that represent the "willing buyer-willing seller" standard and sets forth guidelines for determining rates; and (2) provide that for transmissions pursuant to a public performance license rates shall be established covering the applicable public performances and the related making of phonorecords, and the royalty for the making of phonorecords used by the transmitting organization solely to facilitate transmissions for which it pays royalties shall constitute 5% of such payments.

]]> Performance Rights Act Display Title Performance Rights Act Short Titles as Introduced Performance Rights Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Performance Rights Act S Senate Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide fair compensation to artists for use of their sound recordings. Reported to Senate 2009-10-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s379rs/xml/BILLS-111s379rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2009-02-04T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s379is/xml/BILLS-111s379is.xml 2009-10-15 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 181. 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.