US HB238 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-2)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-02 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Copyright and Marriage Equality Act Amends federal copyright law to revise the definition of "widow" or "widower" for purposes of provisions concerning the transfer of a copyright to an author's spouse or other next of kin following the author's death. Declares that an individual is the widow or widower of an author if the courts of the state in which the individual and the author were married (or, if the individual and the author were not married in any state but were validly married in another jurisdiction, the courts of any state) would find that the individual and the author were validly married at the time of the author's death. (Currently, only the author's surviving spouse under the law of the author's domicile at the time of death is considered a widow.)

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Title

Copyright and Marriage Equality Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2015-02-02HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
2015-01-09HouseReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2015-01-09HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

SB23 (Same As) 2015-01-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S12-13; text of measure as introduced: CR S13)

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