Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2005

Summary

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.

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Timeline

1. 14 December 2005

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 14 December 2005

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 14 December 2005

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 14 December 2005 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 14 December 2005

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 14 December 2005

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Sponsors

• Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-18] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4] · R · Sponsor
• · hsju00 · Standing

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