H.R. 1457 · 114th Congress
Allocation for Music Producers Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Joe Crowley
- Introduced
- 2015-03-19
- Latest action
- 2015-04-21 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
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.