Report on Performers' Protection
May 1987
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.
Report
- Report on Performers' Protection – Preface – PDF 18KB
- Report on Performers' Protection – Parts 1 and 2 – PDF 146KB
- 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
- Report on Performers' Protection – Part 3 – PDF 89KB
- Issue of Copyright Protection for Performances - Majority Views
- Report on Performers' Protection – Part 4 – PDF 131KB
- Minority Views
- Report on Performers' Protection – Endnotes and Appendices – PDF 230KB
- 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
