...form means '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' and can include writing down on paper, typing, entering into a computer, or even dictating into a tape...

...embodied in "any tangible medium of expression," such as paper, video tape, or disk, from which it can be "perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device . . . for a period of more than transitory duration" (Id. §§102(a), 101). A work is "original" if...

...or RAM (random access memory).292 [B] Perception by Machine or Device Fixation can be by any method from which the work can be perceived, reproduced,...otherwise communicated "either directly or with the aid of a 290 1 Melville Nimmer & David Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright § 2.03[B] (1991). 291 ROM or read-only...

...objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, 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...

...objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, 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...

...objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, 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...

...herein, includes every tangible thing from which information can be obtained, perceived, reproduced, or communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, including, but not limited to, any handwritten, typed, printed, or graphic materials; any drawing,...

...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...

...to works "fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...directly or with the aid of a machine or device," making the meaning of "tangible" technologically invariant! You can establish proof of the starting...

...the work be fixed in a 'tangible medium of expression'. Section 101 defines a fixed work as one that 'can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device'.92 Fixation can play a role in claims of infringement because a 'copy' is further defined as...