Legislative update, March 14, 2005

• Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005
• United States Copyright Office's call for public comment on the issue of Orphaned Works
• Preservation and Restoration of Orphan Works for Use in Scholarship and Education (PRO-USE) Act of 2005
• Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005: Senate version | House version

Legislative update, June 4, 2004

• Public Domain Enhancement Act
• Digital Media Consumers Rights Act of 2003 (DMCRA)
  Removes anti-circumvention provision of DMCA in cases where the copyright is not infringed, and requires certain labeling of digital music discs for sale.
  last major action: hearing on May 12, 2004
• Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004 (PIRATE)
  Authorizes the Attorney General to commence civil action in cases of copyright infringement
  last major action: referred back to full Senate without amendment by Committee on the Judiciary on April 29, 2004
• Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act
  Introduces additional protection for databases of information, regardless of underlying copyright status of contents therein
  last major action: reported unfavorably by House Energy and Commerce Committee and placed on the Union Calendar on March 11, 2004

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Older legislation

Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (105th Congress)

Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001 (signed in to law as Subtitle C of the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act )