menthol opened this issue on Aug 25, 2007 ยท 79 posts
pjz99 posted Mon, 27 August 2007 at 8:20 AM
Right there in the link I just gave:
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106
Quote - 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works36Subject 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) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(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) 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) 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) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
The Owner has those exclusive rights - meaning if you are not the owner, you do not have those rights.