...in which the work is duplicated, transcribed, imitated, or simulated in a fixed form from which it can be 'perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...directly or with the aid of a machine or device.' As under the present law, a copyrighted work would be infringed by reproducing it in whole or in any...

...transitory duration."8' A copy is a material object "in which a work is fixed . . . and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."88 Arguably, the Act would thus exclude a digital image that an operator created by combining...

...accompanying a motion picture are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, and include the "parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work", "mechanical...

...Copyrighted article. A copyrighted article includes a copy of a computer program from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The copy of the program may be fixed in the magnetic medium of a floppy disk, or in the main memory...

...may be developed." The language adopted in section 102 to carry out this recommendation is: " * * * fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known...directly or with the aid of a machine or device." Although unfixed works such as improvisations and unrecorded performances would not be subject to statutory...

...phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term 'copies' includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the work is first...

...in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they [original works] can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...directly or with the aid of a machine or device." Again the new language is about as broad as one could ask, and certainly it is flexible and forward-looking....

...in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they [original works] can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...directly or with the aid of a machine or device." Again the new language is about as broad as one could ask, and certainly it is flexible and forward-looking....

...phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...directly or with the aid of a machine or device". That means with the aid of a satellite, for example, and a "derivative work" is a "work based upon...

..."authorship is fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which [it] can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,...either directly or with the aid of a machine or device" (11 ). The general term of protection in Canada and the United States is the life of the author plus...