From Title 17
Copyright Law of the United States of America
Section 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works: Subject
to sections 107 through 120, the owner of copyright under
this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize
any of the following:
(1) Reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) Prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted
work;
(3) 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) Publicly perform literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic
works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual
works;
(5) Publicly display 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;
(6) Publicly perform sound recordings by means of a digital
audio transmission.
There are some exclusions to these rights, as noted in the
law…sections 107 through 120. Those exclusions include
fair use considerations and, most importantly for musicians
and producers who want to use copyrighted music on their phonorecords,
the exclusions include mechanical/compulsory rights.
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