Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement

Summary

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.

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Timeline

1. 4 March 2003

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 4 March 2003

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 4 March 2003

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 5 May 2003

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 4 March 2003 · Download file

Documents

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Sponsors

• Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-18] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3] · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6] · R · Cosponsor
• · hsju00 · Standing

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