HR 1066 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement

Introduced Mar 4, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Zoe Lofgren D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 5, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 4, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

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.

Cosponsors 6

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 4, 2003 to Oct 5, 2004, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-VA	Rick Boucher	Original	Mar 4, 2003
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Mar 20, 2003
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		May 1, 2003
R-UT	Chris Cannon		Jun 26, 2003
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Jul 9, 2003
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		Oct 5, 2004

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 5, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
Mar 4, 2003Introduced in House
Mar 4, 2003Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

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