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    17 USC CHAPTER 11 - SOUND RECORDINGS AND MUSIC VIDEOS       01/03/2007

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    TITLE 17 - COPYRIGHTS
    CHAPTER 11 - SOUND RECORDINGS AND MUSIC VIDEOS

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              CHAPTER 11 - SOUND RECORDINGS AND MUSIC VIDEOS          

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    1101.       Unauthorized fixation and trafficking in sound
                 recordings and music videos.                         

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    17 USC Sec. 1101                                            01/03/2007

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    TITLE 17 - COPYRIGHTS
    CHAPTER 11 - SOUND RECORDINGS AND MUSIC VIDEOS

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    Sec. 1101. Unauthorized fixation and trafficking in sound
      recordings and music videos

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      (a) Unauthorized Acts. - Anyone who, without the consent of the
    performer or performers involved - 
        (1) fixes the sounds or sounds and images of a live musical
      performance in a copy or phonorecord, or reproduces copies or
      phonorecords of such a performance from an unauthorized fixation,
        (2) transmits or otherwise communicates to the public the
      sounds or sounds and images of a live musical performance, or
        (3) distributes or offers to distribute, sells or offers to
      sell, rents or offers to rent, or traffics in any copy or
      phonorecord fixed as described in paragraph (1), regardless of
      whether the fixations occurred in the United States,

    shall be subject to the remedies provided in sections 502 through
    505, to the same extent as an infringer of copyright.
      (b) Definition. - In this section, the term "traffic" has the
    same meaning as in section 2320(e) of title 18.
      (c) Applicability. - This section shall apply to any act or acts
    that occur on or after the date of the enactment of the Uruguay
    Round Agreements Act.
      (d) State Law Not Preempted. - Nothing in this section may be
    construed to annul or limit any rights or remedies under the common
    law or statutes of any State.

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    (Added Pub. L. 103-465, title V, Sec. 512(a), Dec. 8, 1994, 108
    Stat. 4974; amended Pub. L. 109-181, Sec. 2(c)(3), Mar. 16, 2006,
    120 Stat. 288.)

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                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      The date of the enactment of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act,
    referred to in subsec. (c), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 103-
    465, which was approved Dec. 8, 1994.


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                                AMENDMENTS                            
      2006 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109-181 added subsec. (b) and struck
    out heading and text of former subsec. (b). Text read as follows:
    "As used in this section, the term 'traffic in' means transport,
    transfer, or otherwise dispose of, to another, as consideration for
    anything of value, or make or obtain control of with intent to
    transport, transfer, or dispose of."

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