A unique number which will be assigned to a specific recording of a musical work.

A completed recording of a song from which multiple copies are manufactured.

When sound bytes are removed electronically from a master recording and through technological imitation placed within the context of another composition. The length of the bytes can be limitless and can contain lyric and music in combination or in part from any segment of the score. Depending upon the length of the bytes and how they are used, unauthorized sampling could be held to be a copyright infringement of the sound recording from which they were taken and from the musical work they first appeared in.

The copyrighted musical work that results from the fixation of sounds onto a phonorecord.