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Copyright and Marriage Equality Act

Introduced: January 9, 2015 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Feb 2, 2015

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

Jan 9, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Jan 9, 2015

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Copyright and Marriage Equality Act

Amends federal copyright law to revise the definition of "widow" or "widower" for purposes of provisions concerning the transfer of a copyright to an author's spouse or other next of kin following the author's death. Declares that an individual is the widow or widower of an author if the courts of the state in which the individual and the author were married (or, if the individual and the author were not married in any state but were validly married in another jurisdiction, the courts of any state) would find that the individual and the author were validly married at the time of the author's death. (Currently, only the author's surviving spouse under the law of the author's domicile at the time of death is considered a widow.)

What's happening now February 2, 2015

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

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