BALANCE Act

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 108th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

D LofgrenSponsor

6 cosponsors · 4 D, 2 R

1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Mar 4, 2003

Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2003 - Amends Federal copyright law to: (1) include analog or digital transmissions of a copyrighted work within fair use protections; (2) provide that it is not a copyright infringement for a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work to reproduce, store, adapt, or access it for archival purposes or to transfer it to a preferred digital media device in order to effect a non-public performance or display; (3) allow the owner of a particular copy of a digital work to sell or otherwise dispose of the work by means of a transmission to a single recipient, provided the owner does not retain his or her copy in a retrievable form and the work is sold or otherwise disposed of in its original format; and (4) permit circumvention of copyright encryption technology if it is necessary to enable a noninfringing use and the copyright owner fails to make publicly available the necessary means for circumvention without additional cost or burden to a person who has lawfully obtained a copy or phonorecord of a work, or lawfully received a transmission of it.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2003

Also known as: Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement

Latest action (May 5, 2003): Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.

Policy area: Commerce · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 4, 2003

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No recorded floor vote found.