The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Fairness in Music LicensingAct of 1998 extended the US term of copyright to bring it in line with international norms.
Its brief is to promote live music and monitor the introduction of the new LicensingAct which threatens to prevent small venues from putting on live music because of bureaucracy.
The change was introduced through a private member's bill, introduced by Liberal Democrat Don Foster, in order to amend some of the bureaucracy imposed on gigs by the 2003 LicensingAct.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said the LicensingAct 2003 removed the so-called two-in-a-bar rule, which had allowed two musicians to perform in a pub without needing an entertainment permit, and this was one example of how it "ended up potentially criminalising a harmless cultural pastime".
The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 contained provision to allow the chief constable of Fife to authorise youths to buy or attempt to buy alcohol for determine whether an offence was being committed.
On Thursday, Mr Bush said he would keep America's system of licensing and monitoring steel imports and he promised to act promptly against any country judged to be selling its steel below cost in American markets.
The marine consents unit was established under the act to provide a one stop shop for marine licensing in Wales, but responsibility for licensing will now be transferred to the new environment body.