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Rights of
broadcasting
organisations
Supplement to Official Gazette
[2lstApril 2014]
26.(1) A broadcasting organisation shall have the
exclusive right to carry out or to authorise any of the following
acts
(a) the rebroadcasting of its broadcast;
(b)
the communication to the public of its
broadcast;
(c)
the fixation of its broadcast; or
(d)
the reproduction of a fixation of its
broadcast.
(2) The rights under this section shall be protected
from the moment when the broadcasting takes place until the
end of the fiftieth calendar year following the year in which the
broadcast takes place.
(3) Any program-carrying signals transmitted by
satellite which are not intended for direct reception by the
public, but for simultaneous or subsequent broadcasting or
cable distribution by an authorised receiving organisation,
may not be broadcast or cormmmicated to the public by any
person without authorisation of the person or legal entity that
decided what program the emitted signal would carry.
Limitations
on protection
27.
Sections 2 3, 24, 25 and 26 shall not apply where,
without commercial advantage, the acts referred to in those
sections are related to
(a) using short excerpts for reporting current
events to the extent justified by the purpose
of providing current information;
(b) reproduction solely for scientific research;
(c)
reproduction solely for the purpose of face
to-face or distance teaching activities; except
for performances and phonograms which
have been published as teachin g or
instmctional materials; or
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