sound recording definition

sound recording means a recording of music, poetry, or spoken-word performance, but does not include the audio portions spoken and recorded as part of a motion picture, video, theatrical production, television news coverage, or athletic event.
sound recording means any exclusively aural fixation of the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds, regardless of the method by which the sounds are fixed or the medium in which the sounds are embodied but does not include a fixation of sounds and images, such as the sound track of an audio-visual work;
sound recording means a recording of sounds from which sounds may be produced regardless of the medium on which such recording is made or the method by which the sounds are produced. A phonogram and a CD-ROM are sound recordings.

Examples of sound recording in a sentence

  • Artist agrees that the Master Sound Recording shall not be made by or include any Sampling.

  • As Plaintiffs correctly note in their motion for preliminary injunction, the Sound Recording Act of 1971 amended the Copyright Act to extend protection to sound recordings, but only to those recordings that were fixed after February 15, 1972.

  • This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the parties to this Agreement; provided however, that nothing herein modifies, supersedes, voids, or otherwise alters the Additional Conditions of Employment, which contains Employee’s Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, Assignment of Intellectual Property, Photograph, Film, and Sound Recording Release, and General Provisions, signed by Employee on April 12, 2018, which shall remain in full force and effect.

  • U.S., 473 U.S. 207, 211 n.4 (1985) (“Congress did not extend federal copyright protection to sound recordings until the Sound Recording Act of 1971, Pub.L. 92-140, 85 Stat.

  • Seller hereby grants Purchaser, for no additional consideration, the perpetual right to use the name, image, likeness and voice of any person rendering services in connection with the production of any Master, Composition or Sound Recording for the purpose of advertising, publicizing or exploiting the same, including commercial tie-ins.


More Definitions of sound recording

sound recording means a work that results from the fixation on a material object of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds regardless of the nature of the material object, such as a disk, tape, or other phono-record, in which the sounds are embodied.
sound recording means a work that results from the fixation, on or in a recording medium or other material object, of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds regardless of the nature of the medium or object, such as a disk, tape, or other phono record, in which the sounds are recorded.
sound recording means the fixation of the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or representation of sound, other than in the form of a fixation incorporated in a cinematographic or other audiovisual work;
sound recording means any fixation or storage of sounds, or data or signals representing sounds, capable of being reproduced, but does not include a sound-track associated with a cinematograph film;
sound recording means a recording, fixed in any material form, consisting of sounds, whether or not of a performance of a work, but excludes any soundtrack of a cinematographic work where it accompanies the cinematographic work;
sound recording means a recording of sounds on any medium from which the sounds may by any means be reproduced.”
sound recording means the first and constant fixation of a sequence of sound capable of being perceived aurally and of be- ing reproduced, but does not include a soundtrack associated with a cinematographic film;