perform

To “perform” a work means to recite, render, play, dance, or act it, either directly or by means of any device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show its images in any sequence or to make the sounds accompanying it audible.

Source

17 USC § 101

Scoping language

None identified, default scope is assumed to be the parent (chapter 1) of this section.