No. 7 Copyright and Neighbouring Rights 1999 performers are entitled; ''performers'' means. actors, singers, musicians, dancers and. other persons who act, sing, deliver declaim, play in or otherwise perform literary or artistic, works including expressions of folklore,, and variety, and circus artists; ''phonogram" means any exclusively aural fixation of, the sounds of a performance or of other sounds, or f of a representation of sound regardless of the method by which the sound are fixed on the sounds are embodied, and it does not