Stream
Stream means the digital transmission of a sound recording of a musical work to an end user -
(1) To allow the end user to listen to the sound recording, while maintaining a live network connection to the transmitting service, substantially at the time of transmission, except to the extent that the sound recording remains accessible for future listening from a streaming cache reproduction;
(2) Using technology that is designed such that the sound recording does not remain accessible for future listening, except to the extent that the sound recording remains accessible for future listening from a streaming cache reproduction; and
(3) That is also subject to licensing as a public performance of the musical work.
Source
37 CFR § 385.11
Scoping language
For purposes of this subpart, the following definitions shall apply: