S. 1581102nd CongressSenate Bill

Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 1991

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Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 1991 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to allow each Federal agency to: (1) secure copyright on behalf of the United States in any computer software prepared in whole or in part by U.S. employees under a cooperative research and development agreement or other authority, notwithstanding provisions of Federal copyright law; (2) grant in advance to a collaborating party licenses or assignments for the copyrights, or options thereto; and (3) when such an assignment is made, retain specified rights. Adds references to software and its author to provisions governing the distribution of royalties received by Federal agencies.

Introduced Jul 29, 1991
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John Rockefeller

Democrat

U.S. Senator · WV

1 cosponsor — all Democrat

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