Music Included on Software Downloaded from the Internet: Public Performance or Private Use

Authors

Christopher Paul Moore

Abstract

This note addresses the applicability of the public performance right when software creators license copyrighted music to include on software that is sold and delivered directly over the Internet. This note contends that when software is bought from a site on the Internet, and then digitally downloaded to a consumer, a public performance has occurred under section 106(4) of the Copyright Act.

Recommended Citation

Christopher Paul Moore, Music Included on Software Downloaded from the Internet: Public Performance or Private Use, 21 UC Law SF Comm. & Ent. L.J. 829 (1999).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol21/iss4/6