reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine
or device. The term "sound recordings" includes the material object in which the
sounds are first fixed.
(I)
"Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works" include two-dimensional and three
dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art, photographs, prints and art
reproductions, maps, globes, charts, technical drawings, diagrams, and models. Such
works shall include works of artistic craftsmanship insofar as their form but not their
mechanical or utilitarian aspects are concerned; the design of a useful article, as
defined in this section, shall be considered a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural features
that can be identified separately from, and are capable of existing independently of,
the utilitarian aspects of the article
(m)
"Publication" is the distribution of copies or sound recordings of a work to the public
by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to
distribute copies or sound recordings to a group or persons for purposes of further
distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public
performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.
To perform or display a work "publicly" means
(I) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place
where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a
family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or
(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the
work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any
device or process, whether the members of the public capable of
receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in
separate place and at the same time or at different times.
(n)
A "transfer of copyright ownership" is an assignment, mortgage, exclusive license, or
any other conveyance, alienation, or hypothecation of a copyright, or any of the
exclusive rights comprised in a copyright, whether or not it is limited in time or place
of effect, but not including a non exclusive license.
(0)
A "transmission program" is a body of material that, as an aggregate, has been
produced for the sole purpose of transmission to the public in sequence and as a unit.
(p)
To "transmit" a performance or display is to communicate it by any device or process
whereby images or sounds are received beyond the place from which they are sent.
(q)
A "Computer program" is a set of instructions expressed in words, codes, schemes or
in any other form, which is capable, when incorporated in a medium that the
computer can read, or causing a computer to perform or achieve a particular task or
result.
(r)
Anti-trust laws - statutes directed against unlawful restraints of trade and monopolies.
(s)
Person - an individual, partnership, corporation, trustee and legal representation
having certain legal rights and responsibilities.
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