digital performance of pre-1972 sound recordings 1401 . 203. Effective date This title and the amendments made by this title shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. III Allocation for Music Producers 301. Short title This title may be cited as the Allocation for Music Producers Act or the AMP Act . 302. 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) In general A nonprofit 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 an artist payee identified under subparagraph (A) or (D) of paragraph (2) to distribute, to a producer, mixer, or sound engineer who was part of the creative process that created a sound recording, a portion of the payments to which the artist payee would otherwise be entitled from the licensing of transmissions of the sound recording. In this section, such instructions shall be referred to as a letter of direction . (B) Acceptance of letter To the extent that the collective accepts a letter of direction under subparagraph (A), the person entitled to payment pursuant to the letter of direction shall, during the period in which the letter of direction is in effect and carried out by the collective, be treated for all purposes as the owner of the right to receive such payment, and the artist payee providing the letter of direction to the collective shall be treated as having no interest in such payment. (C) Authority of collective This paragraph shall not be construed in such a manner so that the collective is not authorized to accept or act upon payment instructions in circumstances other than those to which this paragraph applies. . (b) Additional provisions for