Summary
H.R. 2724, the Music Online Competition Act of 2001, was designed to update federal copyright laws to better accommodate the rise of digital music and online retail. The bill would have allowed online stores to offer short song previews (up to 30 or 60 seconds) to customers without paying additional licensing fees, similar to how physical record stores can play music to promote sales. Additionally, it sought to clarify that consumers could legally make "archival" or backup copies of music they purchased digitally and ensured that temporary data copies created by a computer during the normal playback of a song would not be considered copyright infringement.
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