AMP Act
Latest action · Apr 21, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
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 19, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 49
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 19, 2015 to Dec 8, 2016; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Thomas J. Rooney | Original | Mar 19, 2015 |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Jun 17, 2015 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Oct 16, 2015 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Oct 16, 2015 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Oct 16, 2015 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Oct 20, 2015 | |
| R-PA | Joseph R. Pitts | Oct 21, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Nov 2, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | Nov 5, 2015 | |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | Nov 5, 2015 | |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Nov 18, 2015 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Nov 19, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Nov 19, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Nov 30, 2015 | |
| R-TX | Lamar Smith | Nov 30, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Dec 3, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Dec 8, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Dec 11, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| R-CO | Scott R. Tipton | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Dec 18, 2015 | |
| R-FL | Ander Crenshaw | Jan 28, 2016 | |
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Feb 9, 2016 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Feb 23, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Feb 23, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Tony Cárdenas | Mar 3, 2016 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| R-TX | Pete Olson | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Apr 15, 2016 | |
| R-VA | J. Randy Forbes | Apr 28, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz | Sep 8, 2016 | |
| D-TN | Jim Cooper | Sep 19, 2016 | |
| R-CA | Darrell Issa | Sep 28, 2016 | |
| R-MI | David A. Trott | Sep 28, 2016 | |
| R-TX | John Ratcliffe | Sep 28, 2016 | |
| R-KS | Mike Pompeo | Nov 14, 2016 | |
| D-IN | Peter J. Visclosky | Nov 14, 2016 | |
| D-IL | Daniel Lipinski | Nov 29, 2016 | |
| R-CA | Stephen Knight | Dec 5, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Dec 8, 2016 | |
| R-GA | Doug Collins | Dec 8, 2016 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Dec 8, 2016 | |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Dec 8, 2016 | |
| R-PA | Tom Marino | Dec 8, 2016 | |
| R-AZ | Trent Franks | Dec 8, 2016 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2015 |
| Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee | Referred Apr 21, 2015 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 21, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
- Mar 19, 2015Introduced in House
- Mar 19, 2015Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Lists H1804–H1806H.R. 1457–1522 | — | Mar 19, 2015 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 47, March 19, 2015, page H1804.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 881 | AMP Act | Reintroduced Bill | Feb 6, 2017 |
| HR 1733 | Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015 | Related bill | May 15, 2015 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- AMP Act
- Allocation for Music Producers Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 19, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
