Amends the copyright law to prohibit a copyright holder from conveying the right to publicly perform an audiovisual work on non-network commercial television without simultaneously conveying the right to perform in synchronization any copyrighted music which accompanies such work.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Referred to Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks.
Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. If subcommittee has not taken final action thereon by May 1, 1986, the subcommittee will be automatically discharged from further consideration of the bill on that date.
Committee on Judiciary requested executive comment from Department of Justice, Patent and Trademark Office.
Star Print ordered S. 1980.
Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. Hearings held.
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