What is the definition of “Public Performance”?
Copyright is a property right that gives the copyright owner of an original work certain exclusive rights which includes the right to authorize or prohibit the public performance or display of that work. You can assume that every DVD and CD that you purchase or rent is copyrighted. Section 101 of the Copyright Act defines Public Performance as follows: To perform or display a work “publicly” means — • 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 • 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 places and at the same time or at different times. Section 110 of the Copyright Act contains a substantial limit
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