of notifying these works to the public shall obtain for their performances rights adjacent to
copyrights called: “neighboring rights”.
Chapter One
Neighboring Rights Holders
Article 108: Each actor, singer, musician, dancer, and any other person who practices acting,
singing, chanting, playing, or reciting or play any role whatsoever in an intellectual work or
traditional cultural heritage works shall be considered a performer of artistic works or musician
in accordance with Article 107 above.
Article 109: The performer or musician shall have the right to license, as per terms specified by
a written contract, establishing a record of his performance or playing and reproducing this
recording, and the audio or audio-video broadcasting of his performance or playing and directly
notifying it to the public.
Article 110: The license to establish an audio or audio-video record for the performer or
musician performance shall be considered an approval to the reproduction thereof in the form of
an audio or audio and video recording he intended to be distributed or notified to the public.
Article 111: In case the performance of the performer or musician is accomplished within the
framework of employment contract, his rights recognized in Articles 109 and 110 shall be
considered as if they are practiced within the framework of labor legislation.
Article 112: The performer or musician shall be entitled to moral rights for his performance, i.e.
indication of his family name or pseudonym unless the utilization method of his performance
does not allow thereof.
He shall also have the right to stipulate the respect of his performance integrity and object any
amendment, mutilation or distortion that would be detrimental to his reputation or honor as an
artist.
Moral rights shall not be disposable, prescriptive and assignable.
Following the death of the performer or musician, these rights shall be practiced as per the terms
provided for in Article 26 herein.
Article 113: The natural or nominal person who undertakes the initial record of sounds
originated from implementing the performance of a literary or artistic work or a work of
traditional cultural heritage shall be considered a producer of audio recordings in accordance
with Article 107 above.
Article 114: The producer of audio recordings shall have the right to license, as per terms
specified in a written contract, the direct or indirect reproduction of his audio recording and offer
copies thereof to public by way of selling or renting, subject to the copyrights of works
established in the audio recording.