Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-357
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Civil actions and liability
Computer crimes
Computer software
Congress
Congressional agencies
Consumer education
Copyright
Crime and Law Enforcement
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Federal libraries
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Foundations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
History
Intellectual property
Internet
Inventions
Law
Liability (Law)
Libraries
Library of Congress
Motion pictures
Music
Nonprofit organizations
Patents
Product counterfeiting
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
Signs and symbols
Social Welfare
Sound recording and reproducing
State laws
Technological innovations
Television programs
Trademarks
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Victims of crimes
Video tape recording
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 -Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 or (ART Act) - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the unauthorized, knowing use of a video camera or similar device to transmit or make a copy of a copyrighted audiovisual work from a performance in a movie theater.
 
Establishes criminal penalties for willful copyright infringement by knowingly making a computer program, musical work, motion picture, or sound recording being prepared for commercial distribution available to the public on a computer network.
 
Family Movie Act of 2005 - Exempts from copyright and trademark infringement, under certain circumstances: (1) making limited portions of the audio or video content of a motion picture for private home viewing imperceptible; or (2) the creation of technology that enables such editing.
 
National Film Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends the National Film Preservation Act of 1996 to direct the Librarian of Congress to carry out preservation activities, including generating public awareness of the National Film Registry, updating the national film preservation program with technological advances, and utilizing the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center to ensure that Registry films are properly stored and disseminated in accordance with copyright law and any relevant agreements. Reauthorizes film preservation provisions.
 
 National Film Preservation Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Allows the Foundation's board of directors to determine the location of its principal office. Authorizes appropriations to the Library of Congress for the Foundation.
 
Preservation of Orphan Works Act - Provides that the limitation on reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works does not apply to the authority of libraries or archives, during the last 20 years of copyright, to reproduce, distribute, display, or perform in facsimile or digital form a copy or phonorecord of published works for preservation, scholarship, or research under certain conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House