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Article 90: “Expressions of folklore” developed and perpetuated in a foreign country
shall be protected by the present Law, subject to reciprocity or on the basis of treaties or
other agreements that are binding on the Republic of Chad.
Part 2: Protection of Neighboring Rights
Chapter 1: General provisions
Article 91: Neighboring rights shall include the rights of performers, producers of
phonograms or videograms and audiovisual communication companies.
Article 92: Neighboring rights shall not prejudice copyright. Consequently, no provision
in the present Part of the Law shall be interpreted in such a way as to limit the exercise of
copyright by the holders thereof.
Article 93: For the purposes of the present Part of the Law:
1 – "performers" means natural persons who act, sing, recite, declaim, play in, dance or
otherwise perform literary or artistic works, variety, circus or puppet acts, or “expressions
of folklore”;
2 – "fixation" means the embodiment of sounds, images, or sounds and images in a
material medium that is permanent or sufficiently stable to allow them to be viewed,
reproduced or communicated in any manner whatsoever during a period of time that is
more than provisional;
3 – "phonogram" means any exclusively audio fixation of the sounds of a performance or
of other sounds, or of a representation of sounds, other than in the form of a fixation
incorporated in a cinematographic or other audiovisual work;
4 – "producer of a phonogram" means the natural or legal person who or which takes the
initiative and has the responsibility for the first fixation of a phonogram;
5 – "videogram" means the fixation of a series of related images, with or without sound,
giving an impression of movement, on cassette, disk or other material media;
6 – "producer of a videogram" means the natural or legal person who or which takes the
initiative and has the responsibility for the first fixation of a videogram;
7 – "publication" of a fixed performance, a phonogram or a videogram means the making
available to the public of copies of the fixed performance or of the phonogram or
videogram, with the consent of the rightholder, and provided that copies are made
available to the public in reasonable quantity;