S. 4080 · 109th Congress
A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to settlement agreements reached with respect to litigation involving certain secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations.
- Stage
- Introduced
- Sponsor
- Ted Stevens
- Introduced
- 2006-12-05
- Latest action
- 2006-12-06 · Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 670.
Summary
Allows the court to: (1) approve a settlement agreement executed after December 1, 2006, by plaintiffs or defendants in connection with litigation that resulted in the entry of an injunction against a satellite carrier for a willful or repeated pattern or practice of delivering a primary transmission made by a network station and embodying a performance or display of a work to subscribers who are not eligible to receive the transmission; and (2) modify the injunction accordingly.