NYSentencing

§ 275.00 Definitions.
  The following definitions are applicable to this article:
  1.  "Person"  means  any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or
association.
  2. "Owner" means (a) the person who owns, or has the exclusive license
in the United States to reproduce or the exclusive license in the United
States  to  distribute  to  the  public  copies of the sounds fixed in a
master phonograph record, master disc, master tape, master film  or  any
other  device  used for reproducing sounds on phonograph records, discs,
tapes, films, videocassettes, or any other articles upon which sound  is
recorded,  and  from  which the transferred recorded sounds are directly
derived; or (b) the person who owns the rights to  record  or  authorize
the recording of a live performance.
  3.  "Fixed" means embodied in a recording by or under the authority of
the author, 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.
  4. "Performer" means the person or persons appearing in a performance.
  5. "Performance" means, whether live before an audience or transmitted
by wire or through  the  air  by  radio  or  television,  a  recitation,
rendering,  or  playing of a series of images, musical, spoken, or other
sounds, or a combination of images and sounds, in an audible sequence.
  6. "Recording" means an original phonograph record, disc, tape,  audio
or  video  cassette, wire, film, hard drive, flash drive, memory card or
other data storage device or any other  medium  on  which  such  sounds,
images,  or  both  sounds and images are or can be recorded or otherwise
stored, or a copy or reproduction that duplicates in whole  or  in  part
the original.