EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS #
17 U.S.C. § 106
Subject to certain limitations, a copyright owner has the following exclusive rights:
REPRODUCE DERIVE DISTRIBUTE PERFORM DISPLAY
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
INFRINGEMENT #
Except as otherwise provided in the Copyright statutes or caselaw, INFRINGEMENT occurs whenever someone other than the copyright owner does any of the above without permission of the copyright owner.
