...in which the work is duplicated, transcribed, imitated, or simulated in a fixed form from which it can be 'perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...directly or with the aid of a machine or device.' As under the present law, a copyrighted work would be infringed by reproducing it in whole or in any...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...of subject matter, the bill does deal very effectively with the question of form. Whereas the 1909 Act has an implicit requirement that subject matter...leaves no doubt about the copyrightability of works first produced and fixed in a computer or any other kind of mechanized system. So far, so good. The...

...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...

...authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...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...

...any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be preceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device." The report accompanying the bill points out on page 15 that : "Under the bill it makes no difference...

...work of authorship "fixed in any tangible medium of expression," which "can be. perceived, produced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device." That means that if a computer program is put onto punchcards, magnetic tape, disks, or any other vehicle,...