The 1976 Copyright Act ensured and expanded copyright owners’ ability to exploit their works.119 The Act abandoned the “for profit” requirement for a public performance right violation because Congress thought many nonprofit organizations could afford the royalty fees.120 Abandoning the for profit requirement to capture nonprofit uses signified the congressional intent to expand the public performance right.121 Furthermore, the House Report explained several key definitions demonstrating its intent for a broad public performance right.122 The report expands the definitions of the words “transmit” and “perform” to mean beyond “the initial rendition or showing.”123 Transmit and perform can also be “any further act by which that rendition or showing is transmitted or communicated to the public.”124 The report’s examples of performances include “a cable television system . . .when it retransmits the broadcast to its subscribers; and any individual . . . whenever he or she . . . communicates the performance by turning on a receiving set.”125 or sounds comprising a performance or display are picked up and conveyed is a ‘transmission.’”127 Congress emphasized its intentions for the transmit clause to be broad and include “all conceivable forms and combinations of wired or wireless communications media