[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2933 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2933

  To amend title 17, United States Code, to remove the exclusion from 
 Federal copyright of sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 2011

  Mr. Polis 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, to remove the exclusion from 
 Federal copyright of sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972.

    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 ``Sound Recording Simplification 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF EXCLUSION.

    Section 301 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (c); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and (f) as 
        subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively.
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