American Royalties Too Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4017 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4017 To amend title 17, United States Code, to secure the rights of visual artists to copyright, to provide for resale royalties, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 17, 2025 Mr. Nadler (for himself and Ms. Chu) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title 17, United States Code, to secure the rights of visual artists to copyright, to provide for resale royalties, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``American Royalties Too Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. RESALE ROYALTY. (a) Collection of Resale Royalty for Visual Art.--Chapter 1 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 106A the following: ``Sec. 106B. Collection of resale royalty for visual art ``(a) Definitions.--In this section: ``(1) Art market professional.--The term `art market professional' means a person engaged in the business of buying and selling works of visual art to the public. ``(2) Author's successor.--The term `author's successor' means an individual who holds the right of the author of a work of visual art to the resale royalty after the death of the author as defined under subsection (e)(3). ``(3) Commercial resale.--The term `commercial resale' means a sale of a resale copy of a work of visual art by, or with the intervention of, an art market professional, subsequent to the first sale of that copy. ``(4) Price.--The term `price' means the aggregate of all payments in cash, credit, or in-kind by or on behalf of a purchaser, excluding any fees fo