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 | | When the draft Working Group Report came out with a recommendation that the first sale doctrine should be modified to ensure that it did not apply to transmissions,[107] for example, the suggestion drew widespread expressions of dismay. |
 | | Further, while the line between private and public performances and displays is defined in the current statute to ensure that a significant realm of performances and displays remains private, no comparable definition appears for public distribution,[113] and the judge-made law on the question is unhelpful. |
 | | In the case of transmissions, the owner of a particular copy of a work does not "dispose of the possession of _that_ copy or phonorecord." A copy of the work remains with the first owner and the recipient of the transmission receives a reproduction of the work. |
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