Ephemeral recording

An ephemeral recording is a “[r]eproduction of a work produced solely for the purpose of a transmission of the work by an entity legally entitled to publicly perform the work.” Bonneville Int’l Corp. v. Peters, 153 F. Supp. 2d 763, 769 (E.D. Pa. 2001).

“Section 112 of the Copyright Act permits the production of ephemeral copies of sound recordings under certain circumstances. . . . An ephemeral recording, as its name implies, is retained only for a limited time.”