[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 12 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 12

To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to infringement of 
                               copyright.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

  Mr. Hughes  (for himself and Mr. Moorhead) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to infringement of 
                               copyright.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 501 of 
title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(f) A television broadcast station is an infringer of copyright 
and is subject to the remedies provided for in this chapter (other than 
section 506) if such station, without the express written consent of 
the copyright owner of a work broadcast by such station, authorizes the 
secondary transmission of such copyrighted work by a cable system or 
other multichannel video programming distributor.''.

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