As used in the Unauthorized Recording Act:

A. "audiovisual recording" means a recording on which images, including images accompanied by sound, are recorded or otherwise stored, including motion picture film, video cassette, video tape, video disc, other recording mediums or a copy that duplicates in whole or in part the original, but does not include recordings produced by an individual for personal use that are not commercially distributed for profit;

B. "fixed" means embodied in a recording or other tangible medium of expression, by or under the authority of the owner, so that the matter embodied is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration;

C. "live performance" means a recitation, rendering or playing of a series of images, musical, spoken or other sounds, or a combination of images and sounds;

D. "manufacturer" means any person who actually transfers or causes the transfer of a recording, or assembles and transfers any product containing any recording as a component thereof, but does not include the manufacturer of a cartridge or casing for a recording;

E. "owner" means a person who owns the sounds or images fixed in a master phonograph record, master disc, master tape, master film or other recording on which sound or image is or can be recorded and from which the transferred recorded sounds or images are directly or indirectly derived;

F. "person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other entity;

G. "recording" means a tangible medium on which sounds, images or both are recorded or otherwise stored, including an original phonograph record, disc, tape, audio cassette or videocassette, wire, film or other medium now existing or developed later on which sounds, images or both are or can be recorded or otherwise stored, or a copy or reproduction that duplicates in whole or in part the original;

H. "tangible medium of expression" means the material object on which sounds, images or a combination of both are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds, images or combination of both can be perceived, reproduced or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device; and

I. "transfer" means to duplicate a recording from one tangible medium of expression to another recording.

History: Laws 1991, ch. 112, § 2.