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ARTICLE 69 Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 60 to 66 of the present Law, the
following acts shall be permitted without the consent of the entitled persons referred to in
those Articles:
- private use;
- reporting on current events, on condition that use is made only of short
fragments of a performance, a phonogram or a broadcast program;
- use solely for purposes of teaching or scientific research;
- quotation, in the form of short fragments, from a performance, a phonogram or
a broadcast program, on condition that such quotations are compatible with fair
practice and are justified by their informatory purpose;
- all other uses that constitute exceptions with respect to works protected by
copyright under the present Law.
ARTICLE 70 Once performers have authorized the incorporation of their performances
in fixations of images or images and sounds, the provisions of Article 61 of the present
Law shall cease to apply.
ARTICLE 71 The authorizations required under Articles 60 to 66 of the present Law for
making fixations of performances and of broadcast programs and for reproducing such
fixations and reproducing phonograms published for commercial purposes shall not be
required where the fixation or the reproduction has been made by a broadcasting
organization using its own facilities and for its own programs, provided that:
- for each broadcast of a fixation of a performance or of reproductions thereof
made under this Article, the broadcasting organization is entitled to broadcast the
performance concerned;
- for each broadcast of a fixation of a program or of a reproduction of such
fixation made under the first paragraph, the broadcasting organization is entitled
to broadcast the program;
- for any fixation made under the first paragraph or reproductions thereof, the
fixation and the reproductions thereof are destroyed within a period of the same
duration as that applying to fixations and reproductions of protected works made
as part of an ephemeral recording, with the exception of a single copy which may
be kept for exclusive purpose of archive conservation.
TITLE XIII
TERM OF PROTECTION OF NEIGHBORING RIGHTS
ARTICLE 72 The term of protection afforded to performances under the present Law
shall be fifty (50) years as from:
- the end of the year of fixation for performances fixed in phonograms;
- the end of the year in which the performance took place for performances not
fixed in phonograms.
The term of protection afforded to phonograms under the present Law shall be fifty (50)
years as from the end of the year in which the phonogram was published, or where no