Legislative Issues

• Legislative Update - September 2008: Breakthrough Agreement Announced between Music Industry Groups
  
  
• Legislative Update - August 2008: Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008
  
  
• Legislative Update - May 2008: PRO IP ACT
  
  
• Update - Copyright Royalty Board Mechanical Rate Hearing - July 2008
  
  
• Legislative Update - Higher Education Opportunity Act (H.R.4137) - August 2008
  
  
• Legislative Update - May 2008: PRO IP ACT
  
  
• Legislative Update - March 2008: PRO IP ACT
  
  
• Copyright Royalty Board Begins Critical Mechanical Rate Hearing
  
  
• Legislative Update - January 2008: New Performance Rights Act Introduced
  
  
• Background on Recent Court Decision from ASCAP CEO John LoFrumento
  
  
• Congress Recesses in November Without Passing Copyright Related Legislation
  
  
• New Tax Law Benefits Songwriters
  
  
• ASCAP Launches Infringement Actions Against Establishments Performing Copyrighted Music Without Permission
  
  
• ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman Applauds Unanimous Supreme Court Decision in MGM Studios vs. Grokster
  
  
• METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC., ET AL., PETITIONERS v. GROKSTER, LTD., ET AL. (Full Text PDF)
  
  
• ASCAP's Amicus Brief on Grokster (PDF)