{"data":{"id":"us/17-u.s.c.-106","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"17 U.S.C. § 106","heading":"Exclusive rights in copyrighted works","body":"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) 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.","path":["Title 17—COPYRIGHTS","CHAPTER 1—SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc17@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:47Z","sha256":"e13e83399518c07567db9784ae91f2abf707dee252fdaa5285ef0194c108eb0a","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/17-u.s.c.-105","next":"us/17-u.s.c.-106a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}