HR 1457 114th Congress House

AMP Act

Official title: To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for direct payment of statutory sound recording performance royalties to record producers, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 20, 2015 See on congress.gov

Commerce Intellectual propertyMusicSound recording

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Apr 21, 2015

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

Mar 19, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Mar 19, 2015

Introduced in House

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Latest action April 21, 2015

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

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Allocation for Music Producers Act or the AMP Act

Amends federal copyright law to require a collective designated by the Copyright Royalty Judges to implement a policy providing for the acceptance of instructions (referred to as a "letter of direction") from a person who owns the exclusive right to publicly perform a sound recording by means of a digital audio transmission, or from a recording artist of a such a sound recording, to distribute a portion of royalty payments to a producer, mixer, or sound engineer who was part of the creative process behind the sound recording.

Requires the collective to adopt special procedures for a producer, mixer, or sound engineer to receive a portion of royalties for recordings fixed before November 1, 1995, by certifying that a reasonable effort has been made to obtain a letter of direction from an artist who owns the right to receipts payable with respect to the sound recording.

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