Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
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CAMEROON
Part III
Rights Neighbouring on Copyrights
56.—(1) The rights neighbouring on copyright shall comprise the rights of performers,
producers of phonograms or videograms and audiovisual communication companies.
(2) Enjoyment of the rights conferred on the natural persons or corporate bodies listed
above may under no circumstances infringe on copyright or limit the exercise thereof.
57.—(1) The performer shall have exclusive right to carry out or authorize the
following acts:
(a) a communication of his performance to the public, supply his recording on
phonogram or videogram to the public through cable or wireless such that any person may
have access to it whenever and wherever he so desires individually except when such
communication:
— is done from a recording, or public communication of the performance;
— is a rebroadcast authorized by the audiovisual broadcasting firm which first aired the
performance;
(b) the mounting of his unrecorded performance;
(c) the reproduction of a recording of his performance;
(d) the distribution of a recording of his performance through sale, exchange, public
hiring;
(e) the separate use of the sound and pictures of the performance, where both the sound
and pictures of the latter were recorded.
(2) In the absence of an agreement to the contrary:
(a) any authorization to broadcast granted to an audiovisual communication enterprise
shall be personal;
(b) the authorization to broadcast shall not imply an authorization to fix the
performance;
(c) the authorization to broadcast and fix the performance shall not imply an
authorization to reproduce the fixation;
(d) the authorization to fix the performance and to reproduce such fixation shall not
imply an authorization to broadcast the performance from the fixation or copies thereof.
58.—(1) The performing artist shall be entitled to respect for his name, his authorship
and his performance.
(2) This right shall be vested in the artist and shall, in particular, be perpetual and
inalienable. It shall be assignable in case of death.
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Copyright, Law, 19/12/2000, No. 2000/011
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