119th Congress · introduced in the House · May 21, 2026
Protect Working Musicians Act of 2026
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Latest action (May 21, 2026): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in House (May 21, 2026)
Protect Working Musicians Act of 2026
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.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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DIGITAL MEDIA ASSN · lobbying firm or registrant: DIGITAL MEDIA ASSN
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Copyright/Patent/Trademark
$123,051
Spent on own lobbying
…ghts 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
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
DIGITAL MEDIA ASSN · lobbying firm or registrant: DIGITAL MEDIA ASSN
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 20, 2026 · issue area: Copyright/Patent/Trademark
$148,713
Spent on own lobbying
…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
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing