Bill Text: NY A04453 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4453

Introduced

Bill Title: Waives the ability of government agencies in New York to claim copyright protection except where the record reflects artistic, creative or scholarly works of authorship, academic course materials, or scientific or academic research, or if the copyright owner intends to distribute the record of derivative work based on it to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-27 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [A04453 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4453

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the  ability  of
          government agencies in New York to claim copyright protection

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 89 of the public officers law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11.  Any  copyright in a record prepared by an agency that is required
     4  to be disclosed pursuant to the provisions of this  article  is  waived,
     5  except where the record reflects or includes artistic, creative or scho-
     6  larly  works  of authorship, academic course materials, or scientific or
     7  academic research, or if the copyright owner intends to  distribute  the
     8  record  or  a derivative work based on it to the public by sale or other
     9  transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or license.  If any  of  the
    10  foregoing  exceptions  apply,  the copyright owner may in its discretion
    11  elect to waive any such copyright.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09141-01-3