The five exclusive rights of copyright ownership are:
- Reproduction: the right to make a copy of the work
- Distribution: the right to sell, rent, lease, lend or give copies of the work to the public
- Public Performance: the right to perform the work publicly, such as a concert, play, broadcast, livestream, etc.
- Public Display: the right to show the work in public, such as by exhibiting a painting in a gallery or displaying a photograph or drawing on a website
- Making of a Derivative Work – the right to create new works based on the original, such as translating a book, writing a sequel, or making a sound recording of a performance of a musical composition.
The owner of a copyright in a sound recording has these exclusive rights, too, but the exclusive right to publicly perform a sound recording extends only to digital transmissions of a performance of it, such as by Internet streaming. The exclusive right to publicly perform works other than sound recordings is not so limited. An analog radio broadcast of a sound recording of a song, for example, might not infringe the producers’ and performers’ rights in the sound recording, but it could infringe the songwriter’s copyright in the musical work.