3.0.0 2625 2023-01-11T13:39:56Z 2023-01-11T13:39:56Z Senate S 2018-03-22 115 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2018-05-15T14:00:04Z Referred to 2018-03-22T22:32:48Z AMP Act 115 881 HR 2017-02-06 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS Music Modernization Act 115 5447 HR 2018-04-26 Received in the Senate. Related bill CRS Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act 115 1551 HR 2018-10-11 Became Public Law No: 115-264. Related bill CRS Music Modernization Act 115 2823 S 2018-09-17 By Senator Grassley from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 115-339. Related bill CRS 2018-05-15 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Committee 2018-03-22 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2018-03-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2018-03-22 True H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. 2018-03-22 True C001071 Sen. Corker, Bob [R-TN] Bob Corker R TN 2018-03-22 True J000300 Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL] Doug Jones D AL 2018-04-25 False P000612 Sen. Perdue, David [R-GA] David Perdue R GA Alfred 2018-04-25 False Commerce Intellectual property Licensing and registrations Music Sound recording Commerce 00 2018-03-22 Introduced in Senate 2018-12-03T17:40:53Z Allocation for Music Producers Act or the AMP Act

This bill authorizes royalties for producers, mixers, and sound engineers who made a creative contribution to a sound recording. A nonprofit collective designated by the Copyright Royalty Board shall adopt procedures for such royalty payments for various digital transmissions of the recording.

The procedures shall allow the owner of the exclusive right to publicly perform the sound recording or the featured artist to instruct the collective to calculate and distribute the payments to the producers, mixers, and sound engineers. The instruction is called a "letter of direction."

For sound recordings fixed before November 1, 1995, the nonprofit collective shall adopt policies for collecting and distributing such royalties, even without a letter of direction. The collective and those seeking royalties shall attempt to contact the featured artist to get a letter of direction; however, if the artist does not object within a specified time frame, the collective may distribute the royalties.

]]> AMP Act Display Title AMP Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the payment of performance royalties to certain producers, mixers, and sound engineers of sound recordings, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced AMP Act Short Titles as Introduced Allocation for Music Producers Act Introduced in Senate 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2625is/xml/BILLS-115s2625is.xml 2018-05-15 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.