performance right
performance right. A copyright holder’s exclusive right to recite, play, act, show, or otherwise render the protected work publicly, whether directly or by technological means (as by broadcasting the work on television). • Every public performance of a copyrighted work requires authorization from the copyright owner or its representative, unless a statutory ephemeral-recording exemption applies. — Also termed public-performance right. [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 36. C.J.S. Copyrights and Intellectual Property §§ 10, 40–41, 97.]
