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]
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.)
Title
Copyright and Marriage Equality Act
Sponsors
Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA] | Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL] | Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO] | Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY] |
Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA] | Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA] | Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA] | Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA] |
Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL] | Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV] | Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA] | Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI] |
Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA] | Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA] | Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY] | Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY] |
Rep. James Himes [D-CT] | Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL] | Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA] | Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL] |
Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL] | Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI] | Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY] | Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR] |
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA] | Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ] | Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN] | Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA] |
Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ] | Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL] | Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA] | Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA] |
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC] | Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2015-02-02 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. |
2015-01-09 | House | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. |
2015-01-09 | House | Introduced 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)
Subjects
Art, artists, authorship
Commerce
Intellectual property
Intergovernmental relations
Marriage and family status
State and local government operations
Commerce
Intellectual property
Intergovernmental relations
Marriage and family status
State and local government operations
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/238/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr238/BILLS-114hr238ih.pdf |