SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: provide for payment of performance royalties to certain producers, mixers, and sound engineers of sound recordings (see S. 2625), S1948 [22MR]

Copyrights: provide Federal protection to audio transmission of sound recordings in any format fixed before a certain date, establish uniform term of protection for such recordings, and permit digital preservation activities (see S. 2933), S2877 [23MY]

——— provide Federal protection to the digital audio transmission of a sound recording fixed before a certain date (see S. 2393), S704 [7FE]

Remarks in House

Business and industry: provide for direct payment of statutory sound recording performance royalties to record producers, H3537, H3541 [25AP]

Copyrights: establish database of nondramatic musical works and sound recordings to help entities that wish to publicly perform such works and recordings to identify and compensate the rights owners (H.R. 3350), E553 [26AP]

——— provide fair treatment of radio stations and artists for the use of sound recordings, H3537 [25AP]

——— provide Federal protection to the digital audio transmission of a sound recording fixed before a certain date, H3536, H3538 [25AP]

House Rules: prohibition against Members using electronic devices to produce sound on the House floor, H5578 [22JN]

Remarks in Senate

Copyrights: provide Federal protection to audio transmission of sound recordings in any format fixed before a certain date, establish uniform term of protection for such recordings, and permit digital preservation activities (S. 2933), S2880 [23MY]

——— provide Federal protection to the digital audio transmission of a sound recording fixed before a certain date (S. 2393), S2880 [23MY]