275.00 - Definitions.

§ 275.00 Definitions.    The following definitions are applicable to this article:    1.  "Person"  means  any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or  association.    2. "Owner" means (a) the person who owns, or has the exclusive license  in the United States to reproduce or the exclusive license in the United  States to distribute to the public copies  of  the  sounds  fixed  in  a  master  phonograph  record, master disc, master tape, master film or any  other device used for reproducing sounds on phonograph  records,  discs,  tapes,  films, videocassettes, or any other articles upon which sound is  recorded, and from which the transferred recorded  sounds  are  directly  derived;  or  (b)  the person who owns the rights to record or authorize  the recording of a live performance.    3. "Fixed" means embodied in a recording by or under the authority  of  the  author,  so  that  the matter embodied is sufficiently permanent or  stable  to  permit  it  to  be  perceived,  reproduced,   or   otherwise  communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.    4. "Performer" means the person or persons appearing in a performance.    5. "Performance" means, whether live before an audience or transmitted  by  wire  or  through  the  air  by  radio  or television, a recitation,  rendering, or playing of a series of images, musical, spoken,  or  other  sounds, or a combination of images and sounds, in an audible sequence.    6.  "Recording" means an original phonograph record, disc, tape, audio  or video cassette, wire, film, or  any  other  medium  on  such  sounds,  images,  or  both  sounds and images are or can be recorded or otherwise  stored, or a copy or reproduction that duplicates in whole  or  in  part  the original.