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Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: provide protection for fashion design (see H.R. 2196), H5060 [30AP]

Computers: provide for agreements for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings by webcasters (see S. 1145), S5819 [21MY] (see H.R. 2344), H5483 [12MY]

Courts: amend laws relative to works connected to certain funding agreements (see H.R. 801), H920 [3FE]

Oklahoma: allow secondary transmission to any subscriber of primary transmissions of local network television stations (see H.R. 505), H323 [14JA]

Patents: create an exception from infringement for certain component parts used to repair another article of manufacture (see S. 1368), S7070 [25JN] (see H.R. 3059), H7445 [25JN]

Radio: provide parity in performance rights to artists for use of their sound recordings (see S. 379), S1542 [4FE] (see H.R. 848), H1041 [4FE]

Television: reauthorize, reform, and modernize satellite statutory license and conform satellite and cable statutory licenses to digital transmissions (see S. 1670), S9371 [15SE] (see H.R. 3570), H9548 [15SE]

———reauthorize extension of statutory license for secondary transmissions of superstations and networks and amend the Communications Act relative to such transmissions (see S. 2764), S11344 [10NO] (see H.R. 2994), H7144 [23JN]

Explanations

Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act (H.R. 3570), H13439 [2DE]

Letters

Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act: Representative Bennie G. Thompson, Committee on Homeland Security (House), H13438 [2DE]

———Representative Conyers, Committee on the Judiciary (House), H13439 [2DE]

———several Representatives, E2913 [8DE]

Remarks in House

Computers: provide for agreements for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings by webcasters (H.R. 2344), H6330-H6332 [9JN], E1190 [18MY]

Intellectual property: improve management, coordination, and effectiveness of domestic and international intellectual property rights enforcement, H10436 [1OC]

Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC): anniversary, E2453 [6OC]

Radio: provide parity in performance rights to artists for use of their sound recordings (H.R. 848), H6331, H6332 [9JN], E202 [4FE]

Television: reauthorize, reform, and modernize satellite statutory license and conform satellite and cable statutory licenses to digital transmissions (H.R. 3570), H13428-H13443 [2DE], E2276 [15SE], E2878, E2882 [3DE], E2913 [8DE]

Remarks in Senate

Computers: provide for agreements for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings by webcasters (H.R. 2344), S6740, S6741 [17JN]

Radio: provide parity in performance rights to artists for use of their sound recordings (S. 379), S1544-S1546 [4FE]

Television: reauthorize, reform, and modernize satellite statutory license and conform satellite and cable statutory licenses to digital transmissions (S. 1670), S9374-S9378 [15SE]

Reports filed

Performance Rights Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 379), S10486 [15OC]

Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 2994) (H. Rept. 111-349), H13465 [2DE]

Satellite Statutory License and Conformation of Satellite and Cable Statutory Licenses to Digital Television Transmissions Reauthorization: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3570) (H. Rept. 111-319), H12043 [28OC]

Satellite Television Modernization Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1670), S9839 [24SE]

———Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1670) (S. Rept. 111-98), S11344 [10NO]

Webcaster Settlement Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 2344) (H. Rept. 111-139), H6305 [8JN]

Texts of

H.R. 2344, Webcaster Settlement Act, H6330 [9JN]

H.R. 3570, Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act, H13428-H13438 [2DE]

S. 379, Performance Rights Act, S1545 [4FE]

S. 1670, Satellite Television Modernization Act, S9374-S9377 [15SE]