AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT
Audio Home Recording Act.Copyright. A 1992 federal law designed to prevent
copyright-infringement suits based on the manufacture, importation, distribution, or sale of
digital-audio technology. • Manufacturers of digital recording devices must pay royalties on sales
of the devices and related media, and build security mechanisms into each device. The security
mechanisms allow the owner of a digital-recording device to make a copy from the original
medium, but not to make a copy from the copy. 17 USCA §§ 1001–1010. — Abbr. AHRA. [Cases:
Copyrights and Intellectual Property 67.2. C.J.S. Copyrights and Intellectual Property § 58.][Blacks Law 8th]