copies
Defined in 2 places across 2 titles of the United States Code.
“Copies” are material objects, other than 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 fixed.
Source
- 1994–present17 U.S.C. § 101Copyrights · Definitions · in this title
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;
Source
- 2020–present18 U.S.C. § 2319CCrimes and Criminal Procedure · Illicit digital transmission services · in this section