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The word "copy" gets kind of strange in a digital world, but I think the closest analogue to this in the pre-digital world would be public performance, which is
by geofft 6y ago
The word "copy" gets kind of strange in a digital world, but I think the closest analogue to this in the pre-digital world would be public performance, which is one of the limited rights under copyright.
I only need to buy one copy of sheet music (and maybe not even that, if I'm a quick learner) for a thousand people to enjoy my performance of it, but merely having the copy does not entitle me to perform it for those thousand people. The first-sale doctrine does allow me to resell the sheet music itself, for someone else to rehearse from or study, but that's it.