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SOUTH AFRICA
PERFORMERS’ PROTECTION ACT
NO. 11 OF 1967
[Assented to 10 February, 1967]
[Date of Commencement: 30 December, 1967]
(Afrikaans text signed by the State President)
Table of Contents
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1. Interpretation of terms ........................................................................................................
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2. Relation to copyright protection. ..........................................................................................
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3. Protection of performers’ rights in respect of performances in the Republic .............................
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4. Extension of protection of performers’ rights to performances
in convention countries. .........................................................................................................
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5. Restrictions on use of performances.....................................................................................
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6. Collective performances ......................................................................................................
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7. Term of protection .............................................................................................................
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8. Exceptions from prohibition against use of performance without the consent
of the performer.....................................................................................................................
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9. Offences and penalties ........................................................................................................
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10. Damages or interdict for infringement of performers’ rights.–Any person who infringes the
rights of any performer may be sued in any court of law by such performer for...........................
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11. Power of the court in respect of fixations, reproductions and plates made in contravention
of this Act..............................................................................................................................
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12. Consent on behalf of performers and criminal liability of unauthorized agent..........................
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13. Contracts in respect of use of performances. .......................................................................
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14. Savings ............................................................................................................................
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15. Short title and date of commencement. ...............................................................................
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ACT
To provide for the protection of performers of literary and artistic works.
1. Interpretation of terms.–
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates–
“broadcasting” means broadcasting by means of a broadcasting service as defined in section 1
of the Radio Act, 1952 (Act No. 3 of 1952); and “broadcast” has a corresponding meaning;
“Corporation” means the South African Broadcasting Corporation established by the
Broadcasting Act, 1936 (Act No. 22 of 1936);
“literary and artistic works” include musical, dramatic and dramatico-musical works;
“performer” means an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other person who acts, sings, delivers,
declaims, plays in or otherwise performs, literary or artistic works;
“phonogram” means any exclusively aural fixation of sounds of a performance or of other
sounds;
“rebroadcasting” means the simultaneous broadcasting by one broadcasting organization of the
broadcast of another broadcasting organization; and “rebroadcast” has a corresponding meaning;
“reproduction” means a copy made of a fixation of a performance.
(2) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to the doing of an act
in relation to a performance, a fixation of a performance or a reproduction of such a fixation, shall be taken to
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