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I don't see a definition in the bill. I don't know if there's a standard legal definition for that or not. Even a good-faith interpretation of "performer" could leave some gray areas, I'd think. A song-and-dance number for an audience gathered for the purpose is a performance with a performer, sure. What about an appearance on a talk show, an interview, a forum discussion, a podcast? Unfortunately, "performance" is a bit of jargon for a specific, unrelated concept in contract law. The reservations your question suggests are very reasonable. I don't intend to dampen anyone's alarm at this absurd effort to implement legal, systemic bullying over nothing. I just so happened to be reading about the Ohio bill shortly before I came across FreshParsnip's comment.