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Music Modernization Act
This bill makes various changes to copyright law related to sound recordings, including providing protection for sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, creating a system for paying royalties to producers and sound engineers, and establishing a statutory blanket license for digital music services. The blanket license allows music services to distribute sound recordings covered by the license without negotiating for the rights for each individual recording, as long as the music service complies with the license's requirements, such as paying the required royalties.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5447 as introduced in House on Apr 10, 2018. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Apr 25, 2018
Music Modernization Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
415 Yea 0 Nay 13 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
428 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. 5447 and vote against it. 30 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5447 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
94 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.