phonorecord

A phonorecord is the physical object in which works of authorship are embodied.

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"phonorecord" includes cassette tapes, CDs, LPs, 45 r.p. m. disks, as well as other formats.

Copyright Basics United States

This section applies to any nondramatic musical work embodied in a phonorecord.

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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.

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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.

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(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.

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(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

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(B) has the power to make a coin-operated phonorecord player available for placement in an establishment for purposes of public performance; or

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Negotiated licenses for public performances by means of coin-operated phonorecord players52

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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.”

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