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... Desiring to develop and maintain the protection of the
rights of performers and producers of phonograms in a manner as effective
and uniform as possible, ...
ARTICLE-1: Relation to Other Conventions [go to this ARTICLE]
... (1) Nothing in this Treaty shall derogate from existing obligations
that Contracting Parties have to each other under the International Convention
for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting
Organizations done in Rome, October 26, 1961 (hereinafter the “Rome Convention”).
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... (2) Protection granted under this Treaty shall leave intact
and shall in no way affect the protection of copyright in literary and artistic
works. Consequently, no provision of this Treaty may be interpreted as prejudicing
such protection. ...
... (2) Protection granted under this Treaty shall leave intact
and shall in no way affect the protection of copyright in literary and artistic
works. Consequently, no provision of this Treaty may be interpreted as prejudicing
such protection. ...
... (2) Protection granted under this Treaty shall leave intact
and shall in no way affect the protection of copyright in literary and artistic
works. Consequently, no provision of this Treaty may be interpreted as prejudicing
such protection. ...
ARTICLE-3: Beneficiaries of Protection under this Treaty [go to this ARTICLE]
... Beneficiaries of Protection under this Treaty ...
... (1) Contracting Parties shall accord the protection provided
under this Treaty to the performers and producers of phonograms who are nationals
of other Contracting Parties. ...
... (2) The nationals of other Contracting Parties shall be understood
to be those performers or producers of phonograms who would meet the criteria
for eligibility for protection provided under the Rome Convention, were all
the Contracting Parties to this Treaty Contracting States of that Convention.
In respect of these criteria of eligibility, Contracting Parties shall apply
the relevant definitions in Article 2 of this Treaty.
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ARTICLE-5: Moral Rights of Performers [go to this ARTICLE]
... (2) The rights granted to a performer in accordance with paragraph
(1) shall, after his death, be maintained, at least until the expiry of the
economic rights, and shall be exercisable by the persons or institutions authorized
by the legislation of the Contracting Party where protection is claimed. However,
those Contracting Parties whose legislation, at the moment of their ratification
of or accession to this Treaty, does not provide for protection after the
death of the performer of all rights set out in the preceding paragraph may
provide that some of these rights will, after his death, cease to be maintained.
...
... (2) The rights granted to a performer in accordance with paragraph
(1) shall, after his death, be maintained, at least until the expiry of the
economic rights, and shall be exercisable by the persons or institutions authorized
by the legislation of the Contracting Party where protection is claimed. However,
those Contracting Parties whose legislation, at the moment of their ratification
of or accession to this Treaty, does not provide for protection after the
death of the performer of all rights set out in the preceding paragraph may
provide that some of these rights will, after his death, cease to be maintained.
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... (3) The means of redress for safeguarding the rights granted
under this Article shall be governed by the legislation of the Contracting
Party where protection is claimed. ...
ARTICLE-16: Limitations and Exceptions [go to this ARTICLE]
... (1) Contracting Parties may, in their national legislation,
provide for the same kinds of limitations or exceptions with regard to the
protection of performers and producers of phonograms as they provide for,
in their national legislation, in connection with the protection of copyright
in literary and artistic works. ...
... (1) Contracting Parties may, in their national legislation,
provide for the same kinds of limitations or exceptions with regard to the
protection of performers and producers of phonograms as they provide for,
in their national legislation, in connection with the protection of copyright
in literary and artistic works. ...
ARTICLE-17: Term of Protection [go to this ARTICLE]
... Term of Protection ...
... (1) The term of protection to be granted to performers under
this Treaty shall last, at least, until the end of a period of 50 years computed
from the end of the year in which the performance was fixed in a phonogram.
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... (2) The term of protection to be granted to producers of phonograms
under this Treaty shall last, at least, until the end of a period of 50 years
computed from the end of the year in which the phonogram was published, or
failing such publication within 50 years from fixation of the phonogram, 50
years from the end of the year in which the fixation was made. ...
ARTICLE-18: Obligations concerning Technological Measures [go to this ARTICLE]
... Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection
and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological
measures that are used by performers or producers of phonograms in connection
with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty and that restrict acts,
in respect of their performances or phonograms, which are not authorized by
the performers or the producers of phonograms concerned or permitted by law.
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