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As they say in the music business, "It all begins with a song. This is true from a commercial perspective, as it would be difficult to record albums, film videos, license music for video games, sell sheet music, or promote concerts without the basic building block of the musical composition. It is also true on the metaphysical level, because the organization of sounds into compositional form creates the necessary order that distinguishes music from noise. This article argues foremost for the adoption of a broad "musical work" definition that includes all contributions of expression greater than de minimis and the further adoption of the Nimmer Rule. Copyright law treats the scope of the musical work copyright inconsistently. The contributions of secondary contributors are generally view...
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Comments filed by the Tax Executives Institute on Dec 12, 1991 on proposed regulations under Section 263A(f) are reprinted. The regulations cover the capitalization of interest under specific circumstances. The institute's comments cover the de minimis rule, definition of designated property, suspension of capitalization after cessation of production, allocation to related parties and allocation of interest costs to long-term contracts.
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... of time beginning on the date of a non-de minimis \11\ political contribution to an ``official of th...The definitions of ``solicit,'' ``affiliated company,'' and ``affi...
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... (Guidance or Release)1 on the further definition of the terms "swap dealer" (SD), "security-based s... raising the amount of the de minimis exception from the definition of SD and SSD; prov...
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... PART 247: REGULATION R-EXEMPTIONS AND DEFINITIONS RELATED TO THE EXCEPTIONS FOR BANKS FROM THE DEFIN...
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... private funds that conduct more than a de minimis amount of speculative trading in futures, commodit... provides an exclusion from the definition of CPO for advisers operating entities regulated a...
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...(4) 25 Pa. Code 87.1 and 88.1, Definition of ?de minimis cost increase.? The definition is n...
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... 218: EXCEPTIONS FOR BANKS FROM THE DEFINITION OF BROKER IN THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 (...
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NMFS issues a final rule under authority of the Magnuson- Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) to implement Amendment 16 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan for Commercial and Recreational Salmon Fisheries off the Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California (Salmon FMP). NMFS approved Amendment 16 on December 16, 2011. This final rule implements components of Amendment 16 that bring the Salmon FMP into compliance with the MSA as amended in 2007, and the corresponding revised National Standard 1 Guidelines (NS1Gs) to end and prevent overfishing. Amendment 16 identifies stocks that are in the fishery, establishes status determination criteria (SDC), and specifies overfishing limits (OFLs), acceptable biological catch (ABC), and annual catch limits (ACLs)....
...Amendment 16 also includes ``de minimis'' fishing provisions that allow for low levels of ... did not include revising the current definition of achieving OY for salmon; therefore, considering...