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All Information (Except Text) for H.R.4536 - Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2005 109th Congress (2005-2006)

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Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16] (Introduced 12/14/2005)
Committees: House - Judiciary
Latest Action: House - 12/14/2005 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.  (All Actions)
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Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2005

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Official Title as Introduced

To amend title 17, United States Code, to safeguard the rights and expectations of consumers who lawfully obtain digital entertainment.

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12/14/2005 Introduced in House

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12/14/2005 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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12/14/2005 Introduced in House
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Cosponsor Date Cosponsored
Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]* 12/14/2005
Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]* 12/14/2005

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House Judiciary 12/14/2005 Referred to

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Introduced in House (12/14/2005)

Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2005 - 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 or received a copy, phonorecord, or transmission of it.