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Protect Working Musicians Act of 2026
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Protect Working Musicians Act of 202 6 This bill allows certain individual music creator owners to collectively negotiate music licensing terms with dominant online music distribution platforms or companies engaged in development or deployment of generative artificial intelligence, including the right to collectively refuse to license their music to such platforms or companies. Individual music creator owners include musicians, producers, and technicians who own the copyright to a recording and either (1) earned less than $1 million in associated revenues during the prior year, or (2) qualify as a record production and distribution small business. Dominant online music distribution platforms include interactive online services with annual revenues from music distribution of more than $100 million. Generative artificial intelligence includes artificial intelligence systems that are capable of producing novel text, video, images, audio, and other media based on prompts or other forms of inputted data.
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2026 · third_quarter · Copyright/Patent/Trademark
1. General copyright law reform (including matters relating to songwriter royalty payments, licensing of musical works, the section 115 mechanical license, the Music Modernization Act, intellectual property enforcement, reform of the U.S. Copyright Office, and online streaming) 2. Subscription related issues, including related to negative option rules 3. NO FAKES Act (S. 1367, S. 4591, H.R. 2794, H.R. 8915), PADRA, and general AI related issues 4. Trade issues related to Canada's Online Streaming Act, USMCA, free trade agreements with Latin American countries, and other digital trade issues 5. Issues related to performance rights organizations 6. Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, H.R. 6028 and H.R. 10204 7. H.R. 8025, Protecting American Streaming and Innovation Act 8. H.R. 8994, Protect Working Musicians Act of 2026
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H
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Client expense: $123,051 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2026 · second_quarter · Copyright/Patent/Trademark
1. General copyright law reform (including matters relating to songwriter royalty payments, licensing of musical works, the section 115 mechanical license, the Music Modernization Act, intellectual property enforcement, reform of the U.S. Copyright Office, and online streaming) 2. Subscription related issues, including related to negative option rules 3. NO FAKES Act (S. 1367, S. 4591, H.R. 2794, H.R. 8915), PADRA, and general AI related issues 4. Trade issues related to Canada's Online Streaming Act, USMCA, free trade agreements with Latin American countries, and other digital trade issues 5. Issues related to performance rights organizations 6. Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, H.R. 6028 7. H.R. 8025, Protecting American Streaming and Innovation Act 8. H.R. 8994, Protect Working Musicians Act of 2026
Client expense: $148,713 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Copyright Office