United States · Bill · S
S. 23 (114th)
Copyright and Marriage Equality Act
Introduced
6 January 2015
Last action
6 January 2015 · Introduced
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S12-13; text of measure as introduced: CR S13)
Sponsors
Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT], Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA], Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE], Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI], Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN], Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA], Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL], Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI], Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Subjects
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Source updated
10 August 2026
Summary
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.)
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Timeline
6 January 2015
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S12-13; text of measure as introduced: CR S13)
Source: IntroReferral
6 January 2015
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
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Versions
- Introduced in Senate · 6 January 2015 · Download file
Documents
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Sponsors
- Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] · D · Cosponsor
- · ssju00 · Standing
Related records
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Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/23
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/23
- us · 114-s-23 · source updated 10 August 2026