[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3203 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3203

             To make certain corrections in copyright law.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 12 (legislative day, September 22), 2000

   Mr. Hatch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
             To make certain corrections in copyright law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Work Made For Hire and Copyright 
Corrections Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. WORK MADE FOR HIRE.

    (a) Definition.--The definition of ``work made for hire'' contained 
in section 101 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``as a sound 
        recording,''; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
        ``In determining whether any work is eligible to be considered 
        a work made for hire under paragraph (2), neither the amendment 
        contained in section 1011(d) of the Intellectual Property and 
        Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999, as enacted by 
        section 1000(a)(9) of Public Law 106-113, nor the deletion of 
        the words added by that amendment--
                    ``(A) shall be considered or otherwise given any 
                legal significance, or
                    ``(B) shall be interpreted to indicate 
                congressional approval or disapproval of, or 
                acquiescence in, any judicial determination,
        by the courts or the Copyright Office. Paragraph (2) shall be 
        interpreted as if both section 2(a)(1) of the Work Made For 
        Hire and Copyright Corrections Act of 2000 and section 1011(d) 
        of the Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform 
        Act of 1999, as enacted by section 1000(a)(9) of Public Law 
        106-113, were never enacted, and without regard to any inaction 
        or awareness by the Congress at any time of any judicial 
        determinations.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) Effective date.--The amendments made by this section 
        shall be effective as of November 29, 1999.
            (2) Severability.--If the provisions of paragraph (1), or 
        any application of such provisions to any person or 
        circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this 
        section, the amendments made by this section, and the 
        application of this section to any other person or circumstance 
        shall not be affected by such invalidation.
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