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Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement

Introduced: March 4, 2003 Introduced by: Lofgren, Zoe Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
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May 5, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
Mar 4, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 4, 2003
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2003 - Amends Federal copyright law to: (1) include analog or digital transmissions of a copyrighted work within fair use protections; (2) provide that it is not a copyright infringement for a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work to reproduce, store, adapt, or access it for archival purposes or to transfer it to a preferred digital media device in order to effect a non-public performance or display; (3) allow the owner of a particular copy of a digital work to sell or otherwise dispose of the work by means of a transmission to a single recipient, provided the owner does not retain his or her copy in a retrievable form and the work is sold or otherwise disposed of in its original format; and (4) permit circumvention of copyright encryption technology if it is necessary to enable a noninfringing use and the copyright owner fails to make publicly available the necessary means for circumvention without additional cost or burden to a person who has lawfully obtained a copy or phonorecord of a work, or lawfully received a transmission of it.
What's happening now May 5, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.

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