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17 U.S.C. § 106

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Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
  1. (1)to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
  2. (2)to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
  3. (3)to 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. (4)in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
  5. (5)in the case of 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, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
  6. (6)in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.