3.0.0 3880 2023-09-01T16:15:22Z 2023-09-05T17:28:05Z Senate S 2022-03-17 117 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2022-03-17T19:08:54Z SMART Copyright Act of 2023 117 9541 HR 2022-12-14 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2022-03-17 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2022-03-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000476 Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] Thomas Tillis R NC Roland N L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2022-03-17 True Commerce Commerce 00 2022-03-17 Introduced in Senate 2023-09-01T16:07:29Z Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022 or the SMART Copyright Act of 2022

This bill authorizes the Library of Congress to designate technical measures (i.e., measures that identify, manage, or protect copyrighted works) and requires providers of internet-related services to make reasonable accommodations for applicable designated technical measures. A copyright owner may sue and receive monetary damages from a service provider that fails to make such reasonable accommodations.

The bill also modifies requirements relating to a provision that limits the liability of service providers for acts of copyright infringement committed by the service providers' users.

]]> SMART Copyright Act of 2022 Display Title SMART Copyright Act of 2022 Short Title(s) as Introduced SMART Copyright Act of 2022 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to define and provide for accommodation and designation of technical measures to identify, protect, or manage copyrighted works, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s3880is/xml/BILLS-117s3880is.xml 2022-03-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 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.