To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to settlement agreements reached with respect to litigation involving certain secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations.

Allows the court to: (1) approve a settlement agreement executed after December 1, 2006, by plaintiffs or defendants in connection with litigation that resulted in the entry of an injunction against a satellite carrier for a willful or repeated pattern or practice of delivering a primary transmission made by a network station and embodying a performance or display of a work to subscribers who are not eligible to receive the transmission; and (2) modify the injunction accordingly.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[H.R. 6384 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6384

   To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to settlement 
    agreements reached with respect to litigation involving certain 
     secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 6, 2006

Mr. Boucher (for himself, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Bass, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Deal 
   of Georgia, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Herger, Mr. Rahall, Mr. 
    Stearns, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Terry, and Mr. Thompson of California) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL



   To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to settlement 
    agreements reached with respect to litigation involving certain 
     secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO 17 U.S.C. 119.

    Section 119(a)(7)(B) of title 17, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after clause (ii) the following:
                ``The court may, at any time, approve a settlement 
                agreement executed after December 1, 2006, by 1 or more 
                plaintiffs and 1 or more defendants in connection with 
                litigation that resulted in the entry of an injunction 
                under clause (i) or (ii) of this subparagraph, and may 
                modify such injunction accordingly.''.
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