The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication. The act by which a thing is made public and differing from promulgation.
Publication has different meanings.
When it refers to a libel, it is its communication to a second or third person, or a greater number. And when spoken of a will, it signifies that the testator has done some act from which it can be concluded that he intended the instrument to operate as his will.