perform

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)

Definitions from Case Law

From 392 U.S. 390 - Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc. · 1968Most cited · 366 citing opinions

Broadcasters perform. Viewers do not perform. CATV falls on the viewer's side of the line. Essentially, a CATV system no more than enhances the viewer's capacity to receive the broadcaster's signals; it provides a well-located antenna with an efficient connection to the viewer's television set. CATV systems do not in fact broadcast or rebroadcast. Broadcasters select the programs to be viewed; CATV systems simply carry, without editing, whatever programs they receive. Broadcasters procure programs and propagate them to the public; CATV systems receive programs that have been released to the public and carry them by private channels to additional viewers.

United States Code

18 U.S.C. § 2319C — in this section (2 versions over time)

the terms “audiovisual work”, “computer program”, “copies”, “copyright owner”, “digital transmission”, “financial gain”, “motion picture”, “motion picture exhibition facility”, “perform”, “phonorecords”, “publicly” (with respect to performing a work), “sound recording”, and “transmit” have the meanings given those terms in section 101 of title 17;

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To perform an obligation or contract is to execute, fulfill or accomplish it according to its terms. This may consist either in action on the part of the person bound by the contract or in omission to act, according to the nature of the subject-matter; but the term is usually applied to any action in discharge of a contract other than payment

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

V. To accomplish; to act as one has agreed; to do, and usually to do what one ought or properly may. A person is said to perform a contract, but to commit (not to perform) a crime. discharge of the obligation which results. Fericulum rei veuditse, nondum traditse, est emptoris. The risk of a thing sold, but not yet delivered, is the purchaser's. When a sale has once become valid and complete, without delivery, whether by part payment or part delivery, or by a compliance with the statute of frauds, so that the property in the subject of the sale passes to the buyer, he takes also the risk of injury to it, or of its destruction. The principle is more tersely expressed in the maxim, res perk domino, q. v.