...basic purpose." Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken, 422 US 151, 156 (1975) (footnotes omitted). Copyright protection "subsists ... in original works...authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression." 17 USC § 102(a) (1982 ed.). This protection has never accorded the copyright owner complete control...

...transitory duration."8' A copy is a material object "in which a work is fixed . . . and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."88 Arguably, the Act would thus exclude a digital image that an operator created by combining...

...accompanying a motion picture are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, and include the "parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work", "mechanical...

...this medium may be one "now known or later developed," and that the fixation Is sufficient if the work "can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...directly or with the aid of a machine or device." This broad language is intended to avoid the artificial and largely unjustifiable distinctions, derived...

...Copyrighted article. A copyrighted article includes a copy of a computer program from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The copy of the program may be fixed in the magnetic medium of a floppy disk, or in the main memory...

...COPYRIGHT : IN GENERAL (a) Copyright protection under this title shall be available for an original work of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which it can be visually or aurally perceived, reproduced, performed, or represented, either directly or...

...Subject matter of copyright: In general Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories: (1) literary works; (2) musical works, including...

...phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term 'copies' includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the work is first...

...in some tangible form from which the work can be reproduced, the new bill more explicitly specified "fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they [original works] can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the...

...in some tangible form from which the work can be reproduced, the new bill more explicitly specified "fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they [original works] can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the...