A completed artistic creation, produced or accomplished through the effort, activity or agency of a person or group, comprised of any combination of picture (or video) essence, sound (or audio) essence and/or data (or auxiliary) essence.
work segment A contiguous subset of a work; identified with a single start time and end time pair referenced to the work’s timeline; and a defined subset of the elements of the work.
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