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.
Allocation for Music Producers Act or the AMP Act
This bill 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.
The collective must 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.
Received in the Senate.
Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
By Senator Grassley from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 115-339.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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