1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Allocation for Music Producers Act or the AMP Act . 2. Payment of statutory performance royalties (a) Letter of direction Section 114(g) of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) Letter of direction A collective designated by the Copyright Royalty Judges to distribute receipts from the licensing of transmissions in accordance with subsection (f) shall adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides, in circumstances determined by the collective to be appropriate, for acceptance of instructions from a payee identified in subparagraph (A) or (D) of paragraph (2) to distribute a portion of the payments to which the payee otherwise would be entitled from the licensing of transmissions of a particular sound recording to a producer, mixer, or sound engineer who was part of the creative process that created the sound recording (in this section, referred to as a letter of direction ). To the extent that the collective accepts a letter of direction, the person entitled to payment pursuant to such letter of direction shall, during the time such letter of direction is in effect and followed by the collective, be treated for all purposes as the owner of the right to receive such payment. This paragraph shall not be interpreted to imply that a collective cannot accept or act upon payment instructions in other circumstances. . (b) Additional provisions for recordings fixed before November 1, 1995 Section 114(g) of title 17, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (6) Sound recordings fixed before November 1, 1995 (A) Payment absent letter of direction A collective designated by the Copyright Royalty Judges to distribute receipts from the licensing of transmissions in accordance with subsection (f) shall adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides, in circumstances determined by the collective to be appropriate, for deduction of 2