As used in KRS § 365.780 to KRS § 365.784:
(1) “Performing group” means a vocal or instrumental group of one (1) or more members that intends to advertise or perform under the name of a recording group or a name confusingly similar to a recording group;
(2) “Recording group” means a vocal or instrumental group of one (1) or more members, at least one (1) of whose members previously released a commercial sound recording under that group’s name and the legal rights to which have not been abandoned; and
(3) “Sound recording” means a work that results from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds, regardless of the nature of the material object, such as a phonograph, disc, tape, wire, digital storage, or other medium, in which sounds are embodied.
Effective: July 14, 2022
History: Created 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 52, sec. 6, effective July 14, 2022.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/14/2022). 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 52, sec. 9, provides that the Act, which created KRS § 367.630 to KRS § 367.638 and 365.780 to
365.784, may be cited as the Kentucky True Origin of Digital Goods and Truth in
Musical Advertising Act.