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Key definition

Performance rights definition

What does Performance rights mean? In practice, performance rights protect performers against unauthorised recording, copying or transmission of their live or recorded dramatic and musical performances, and give them payment rights when recordings are used. In the UK, performers’ rights are created by statute (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Part II); in Ireland they are set out in the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000. The UK regime applies consistently across England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Key features include: a requirement for the performer’s consent to record (fix), broadcast, stream or make available a performance; the ability to stop copying, distribution...

Singapore performers’ rights: scope, unauthorised uses, remedies (civil and criminal), duration and moral rights under the Copyright Act (Cap 63) [Archived]

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Practice notes

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and not maintained. It was originally prepared for LexisAdvance® Practical Guidance Singapore.

Performance rights shield a performer’s live or recorded dramatic and musical performances from unauthorised recording or broadcasting, and from other unapproved dealings. These rights now form a bundle of Economic rights in performances encompassing non‑property, property and Moral Rights, granting performers of qualifying performances the ability to consent to, and to receive Equitable remuneration for, specified reproductions of their performances. They are particularly valuable for addressing ‘bootleg’ recordings, that is, when a live performance is captured without the performer’s consent.

Unauthorised use of performance

The exclusive rights afforded to performers for their performances under the Copyright Act (Cap 63) can be grouped into two principal categories:

a primary right against the following unauthorised uses where a person:
- makes a direct or indirect recording of the performance in any manner or medium
- communicates the live performance to the public
- makes a copy of a recording of the performance that the person knows, or ought reasonably

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