ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -1[38. Performer’s right.-(1) Where any performer appears or engages in any performance, he shall have a special right to be known as the “performer’s right” in relation to such performance."

Detailed explanation-2: –(1) Every broadcasting organisation shall have a special right to be known as ‘’broadcast reproduction right” in respect of its broadcasts.” (2) The broadcast reproduction right shall subsist until twenty-five years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the broadcast is made.

Detailed explanation-3: -Performer has the right to produce the sound or visual recording: A performer may also become producer of the sound or visual recording and can enjoy all the rights that a producer enjoys such as reproducing a number of copies, giving the copies for commercial rental, communicating the work to the public etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -The rights of performers were first recognized in the Rome Convention of 1961, Article 7 of which provides the performers with the right to prevent others from communicating the performance to the public or commercially exploiting it in any way.