H.R. 1457: AMP Act
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H.R. 1457: AMP Act
114th Congress · introduced 2015-03-19 · Commerce · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2015-03-19 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
AMP Act
Plain 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.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14] · 49 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Ted Lieu (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Judy Chu (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Peter Welch (D-VT), Raul Ruiz (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr1457.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>
Record fed-us-cong114-hr1457 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114