HR 5211 · 107th Congress · Commerce

To amend title 17, United States Code, to limit the liability of copyright owners for protecting their works on peer-to-peer networks.

Introduced 2002-07-25· Sponsored by Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-26]· House

Bill Progress

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House Vote
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Senate
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Enacted
Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.(2002-08-20)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends Federal copyright law to protect a copyright owner from liability in any criminal or civil action for impairing, with appropriate technology, the unauthorized distribution, display, performance, or reproduction of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network, if such impairment does not, without authorization, alter, delete, or otherwise impair the integrity of any computer file or data residing on the computer of a file trader. Denies such liability protection to a copyright owner who does not comply with certain notification requirements or who: (1) impairs the availability within a publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network of a computer file or data that does not contain a work in which the owner has an exclusive copyright; (2) causes economic loss to any person other than affected file traders; or (3) causes other economic loss of more than $50.00 per impairment to the property of the affected file trader. Conditions a copyright owner's protection from liability upon seven-days' notice to the Department of Justice of the specific technologies intended for use to impair unauthorized distribution, display, performance, …

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Cosponsors (4)

1 Democrat3 Republicans