US Congress House Bill 5617 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-1)
Status: Introduced on September 18 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-10-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet 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

Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]
Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Janice Hahn [D-CA]
Rep. Richard Hanna [R-NY]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. James Moran [D-VA]	Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]
Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]
Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D-PA]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-10-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
2014-09-18	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

SB2919 (Same As) 2014-11-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5921)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5617/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr5617/BILLS-113hr5617ih.pdf