Report on Performers' Protection

The Copyright Law Review Committee is unanimous in its view that there is a need for legislation to protect performers against the unauthorised fixation of their performances.

May 1987

Report Preface

Parts 1 and 2

• Part 1

• Terms of Reference
• Summary of Recommendations
• Course of Inquiry
• General Comments
• The Rome Convention
• Performers Protection in Other Countries

• Part 2
  

• Unauthorised Fixation of Performances
• Other Rights for Performers

Part 3

• Issue of Copyright Protection for Performances - Majority Views

Parts 4

• Minority Views

Endnotes and Appendices

• Appendix 1: List of Submittors responding to initial invitation to comment
• Appendix 2: List of Submittors responding to Committees' Discussion Paper
• Appendix 3: The International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations ('the Rome Convention')
• Appendix 4: Parties to the Rome Convention
• Appendix 5: Copyright owners' Collecting Societies
• Appendix 6: Survey of Legal Protection for Performers in other Countries