Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 642.002 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
COMMERCIAL RECORDING OR AUDIOVISUAL WORK.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
For purposes of this chapter, a recording or audiovisual work is considered to be a commercial recording or audiovisual work if the owner, assignee, authorized agent, or licensee of the recording or work disseminates or intends to disseminate the recording or work for sale, rental, or performance or exhibition to the public, including under license, regardless of whether the person who disseminates the recording or work seeks commercial advantage or private financial gain from the dissemination.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (S.B. 855), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2022.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.642.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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