US Congress Senate Bill 23 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 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)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.)

Copyright and Marriage Equality Act

Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]
Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-06	Senate	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)

HB238 (Same As) 2015-02-02 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/23/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s23/BILLS-114s23is.pdf