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H.R. 881: AMP Act

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H.R. 881: AMP Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-02-06 · Commerce · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-02-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

AMP Act

Plain summary

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.

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Official text

AMP Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14] · 67 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Peter Welch (D-VT), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Raul Ruiz (D-CA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL), Mike Johnson (R-LA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and 7 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr881 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115