Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act information
Copyright law in the United States
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Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act
Long title
Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995
Acronyms (colloquial)
DPRA
Effective
Feb 1, 1996
Citations
Public law
Pub. L. No. 104-39, 109 Stat. 336
Statutes at Large
109 Stat. 336
Codification
Acts amended
Copyright Act of 1976
Titles amended
17 (Copyright)
U.S.C. sections amended
17 U.S.C. §§ 106, 114-115
Legislative history
Introduced in the United States Senate as S.227 by Orrin Hatch (R–UT) on January 13, 1995
Committee consideration by Senate Judiciary Committee; House Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property)
Passed the United States Senate on November 1, 1995
Passed the United States House of Representatives on October 17, 1995
Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 1, 1995
Major amendments
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995
The Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 (DPRA) is a United States Copyright law that grants owners of a copyright in sound recordings an exclusive right “to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.”[1] The DPRA was enacted in response to the absence of a performance right for sound recordings in the Copyright Act of 1976 and a fear that digital technology would stand in for sales of physical records.[2] The performance right for sound recordings under the DPRA is limited to transmissions over a digital transmission, so it is not as expansive as the performance right for other types of copyrighted works.[3] The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), enacted in 1998, modified the DPRA.
^17 U.S.C. § 106(6)
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