A phonorecord is the physical object in which works of authorship are embodied. ❋ United States (N/A)
"phonorecord" includes cassette tapes, CDs, LPs, 45 r.p. m. disks, as well as other formats. ❋ United States (N/A)
(C) has the power to exercise primary control over the selection of the musical works made available for public performance on a coin-operated phonorecord player. ❋ Unknown (2007)
License agreements between one or more copyright owners and one or more operators of coin-operated phonorecord players, which are negotiated in accordance with subsection (b), shall be given effect in lieu of any otherwise applicable determination by a copyright arbitration royalty panel. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This section applies to any nondramatic musical work embodied in a phonorecord. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Any owners of copyright in works to which this section applies and any operators of coin-operated phonorecord players may negotiate and agree upon the terms and rates of royalty payments for the performance of such works and the proportionate division of fees paid among copyright owners, and may designate common agents to negotiate, agree to, pay, or receive such royalty payments. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(C) is accompanied by a list which is comprised of the titles of all the musical works available for performance on it, and is affixed to the phonorecord player or posted in the establishment in a prominent position where it can be readily examined by the public; and ❋ Unknown (2007)
(B) has the power to make a coin-operated phonorecord player available for placement in an establishment for purposes of public performance; or ❋ Unknown (2007)
Negotiated licenses for public performances by means of coin-operated phonorecord players52 ❋ Unknown (2007)
Per 17 USC 101, “A work is ‘fixed’ in a tangible medium of expression when its embodiment in a copy or phonorecord, by or under the authority of the author, is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
First, the panel adopts a different approach to infringement of a musical composition embodied in a phonorecord than for infringement of the sound recording embodied in that same phonorecord; second, the difference lies in the lack of any requirement of even a de mininis taking for sound recordings. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Nor is there anything special about copying by sampling versus copying by incorporating three notes from a musical composition into another musical composition or into a phonorecord. ❋ Unknown (2005)
A work is "fixed" in a tangible medium of expression when its embodiment in a copy or phonorecord, by or under the authority of the author, is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Copyright is secured * automatically* when the work is created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. ❋ United States (N/A)
A sound recording is not the same as a phonorecord. ❋ United States (N/A)
+ Mere ownership of a book, manuscript, painting, or any other copy or phonorecord does not give the possessor the copyright. ❋ United States (N/A)
If the producer of the sound recording is named on the phonorecord label or container and if no other name appears in conjunction with the notice, the producer's name shall be considered a part of the notice. ❋ United States (N/A)
+ If the work was first published outside the United States, one complete copy or phonorecord of the work as first published. ❋ United States (N/A)
The three elements of the notice should ordinarily appear together on the copies or phonorecords or on the phonorecord label or container. ❋ United States (N/A)
+ If the work is a literary, dramatic, or musical work * published only in a phonorecord*, the deposit requirement is one complete phonorecord. ❋ United States (N/A)
