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Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill amends federal copyright law to require the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Register of Copyrights from a list of at least three individuals recommended by a panel composed of:
the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
(Currently, the Register of Copyrights is appointed by the Librarian of Congress.)
To be eligible for appointment, the individual must be a citizen of the United States with a professional background and experience in copyright law and must be capable of identifying and supervising a chief information officer responsible for managing modern information technology systems.
The bill limits the term of office for the Register of Copyrights to 10 years, but the individual may be reappointed subject to the same requirements established in this bill.
The President may remove the Register of Copyrights from office and must notify both chambers of Congress of any such removal.
(Sec. 3) Nothing in this bill may be construed to impact the mandatory deposit requirements under which owners of a copyright or of an exclusive right of publication must deposit in the U.S. Copyright Office two copies or phonorecords of works published in the United States for the use or disposition of the Library of Congress.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1695 as passed House amended on Apr 26, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Apr 26, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveApr 26, 2017
House Apr 26, 2017 · the primary vote
Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act
Passed
378 Yea 48 Nay 4 not voting
Crossed both parties 48 of 426 voting members broke with their own party: 46 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1695 and vote against it. 29 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1695 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
287 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.