<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The definition for "Public Performance" is "using the Software to take<br>
any action that implicates the rights of public performance or public<br>
display of a work under copyright law." Query how this plays out under<br>
EU law specifically. I hope EU readers more knowledgeable than me chime<br>
in, but I don't read any equivalent right under EU law, so I don't know<br>
what an EU court would do with it. Ignore it because there is no such<br>
thing in the EU? Consider it equivalent to distribution?</div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">NAL, but the WIPO treaty (Art 8) and the EU Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC (Art 3) and others contain an author's right of “communication to the public” which seems broadly similar to a remote, user-initiated public performance. While I don't know about public performance of software, communication to the public has led to some novel conclusions in the EU, for example that hyperlinking a work constitutes communicating the work to the public. Applying a public performance right to software feels far less surprising, in comparison.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I don't think the CAL should be amended to include jurisdiction-specific terms. It is sufficiently clear without them. But since WIPO is widely implemented international law, referencing it could be most useful. Note that WIPO also equates computer programs with literary works, which is important for the CAL to work.<br></div></div>