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498
Multimedia works. A multimedia work is one which, excluding the physical housing of its components, combines two or more kinds of authorship in two or more of the following media: phonorecords, copies from which the work may be visually perceived without the aid of a
machine or device, and copies from which the work is intrinsically intended to be perceived with the aid of a machine or device.498.01
Audiovisual multimedia works. These incorporate an audiovisual work: any accompanying sound element is not registrable as a sound recording. See sections 492 and 470 above.
498.02
Nonaudiovisual multimedia works. A non audiovisual multimedia work generally incorporates a sound recording accompanied by material which can be perceived visually without the aid of a machine or device (for example, textual material in a booklet). The sound recording and any material published with it, such as underlying text, or accompanying text or illustrations, may be registered together in Class SR. For registrability of various elements, see sections appropriate to each such element.
[Numbers 498.03 through 498.99 are reserved.]
499
Glossary of terms. The following is a list of terms commonly used with reference to sound recordings.
- BALANCE
- relative level or volume, for example, between different or instruments, bass and treble, or different tracks or channels.
- BALANCING
- adjusting the relative levels of voices or instruments, bass and treble, or recorded tracks.
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