SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: protect intellectual property rights in voice and visual likeness of individuals (see S. 1367), S2520 [9AP] (see H.R. 2794), H1562 [9AP]

Copyrights: provide fair treatment of radio stations and artists for use of sound recordings (see S. 326), S523 [30JA] (see H.R. 861), H430 [31JA]

——— provide for blocking orders relating to specifically identified infringing foreign websites or online services (see H.R. 791), H403 [28JA]

Federal Rules of Evidence: limit admissibility of evidence of defendant’s creative or artistic expression against such defendant in criminal proceeding (see H.R. 4678), H3643 [23JY]

Music and dance: establish Artist Compensation Royalty Fund (see H.R. 5664), H4508 [30SE]

Radio: oppose new fees, taxes, royalties, or charges on local, over the air, radio stations (see S. Con. Res. 8), S1460 [3MR] (see H. Con. Res. 12), H709 [13FE]

Taxation: expand ability to expense certain qualified productions (see S. 2530), S4904 [30JY] (see H.R. 4840), H3672 [1AU]

——— provide for election to expense certain qualified sound recording costs otherwise chargeable to capital account (see S. 194), S302 [22JA] (see H.R. 761), H402 [28JA]

Technology: establish technical and procedural standards for artificial or prerecorded voice systems created through generative artificial intelligence (AI) (see H.R. 334), H109 [13JA]

Remarks in House

Rocky Mount, NC: discovery of original recording of Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ speech delivered at Booker T. Washington High School, H202 [16JA]

Texts of

S. Con. Res. 8, oppose new fees, taxes, royalties, or charges on local, over the air, radio stations, S1463 [3MR]