S 258 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

A bill to clarify provisions relating to statutory copyright licenses for satellite carriers.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 11, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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.

  1. IntroducedJan 11, 2007
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Grants a statutory license to provide a secondary transmission of a performance or display of a work embodied in a primary transmission made by a network station to a satellite carrier found to have engaged in a pattern or practice of violations of delivering such a primary transmission to subscribers who are not eligible to receive it, notwithstanding any injunction that has been issued.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 11, 2007.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-NHJudd GreggOriginalJan 11, 2007

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 11, 2007Introduced in Senate
  2. Jan 11, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jan 11, 2007Introduced in Senate

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