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S. 2625 115th Congress Senate

AMP Act

Official title: A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the payment of performance royalties to certain producers, mixers, and sound engineers of sound recordings, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 22, 2018 Introduced by: Chuck Grassley Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
Commerce Intellectual propertyLicensing and registrationsMusicSound recording
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 15, 2018
Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
Mar 22, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 22, 2018
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action May 15, 2018

Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Allocation for Music Producers Act or the AMP Act

This bill authorizes royalties for producers, mixers, and sound engineers who made a creative contribution to a sound recording. A nonprofit collective designated by the Copyright Royalty Board shall adopt procedures for such royalty payments for various digital transmissions of the recording.

The procedures shall allow the owner of the exclusive right to publicly perform the sound recording or the featured artist to instruct the collective to calculate and distribute the payments to the producers, mixers, and sound engineers. The instruction is called a "letter of direction."

For sound recordings fixed before November 1, 1995, the nonprofit collective shall adopt policies for collecting and distributing such royalties, even without a letter of direction. The collective and those seeking royalties shall attempt to contact the featured artist to get a letter of direction; however, if the artist does not object within a specified time frame, the collective may distribute the royalties.

 Related & companion bills 4
  • HR 881 AMP Act
  • HR 5447 Music Modernization Act
  • HR 1551 Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act
  • S 2823 Music Modernization Act
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2625: AMP Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2625/
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"S. 2625: AMP Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2625/.
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