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TITLE II: PROTECTION OF PERFORMERS, PRODUCERS OF PHONOGRAMS
AND BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS
CHAPTER ONE: RIGHTS OF AUTHORIZATION
Article 242: Rights of performers
Without prejudice to the provisions of articles 247 to 249 a performer shall have the exclusive
right to carry out or to authorize any of the following acts:
1° the broadcasting of his or her performance, except where the broadcasting:
a) is made from a fixation of the performance which the performer has authorized to be made,
or
b) is a re-broadcasting made or authorized by the organization initially broadcasting the
performance;
2° the communication to the public of his or her performance, except where the
communication:
a) is made from a fixation of the performance which the performer has authorized to be made,
b) is made from a broadcasting of his or her performance;
3°
the fixation of his or her unfixed performance;
4°
the direct or indirect reproduction of a fixation of his or her performance;
5°
the distribution of a fixation of his or her performance, or of copies thereof, to the public
by sale or other transfer of ownership;
6°
the rental to the public of a fixation of his or her performance, or copies thereof;
7°
the making available to the public of his or her fixed performance in phonogram, by wire
or wireless means, in such a way that members of the public may access them from a
place or at a time individually chosen by them.
Independently of the performer’s economic rights, and even after the transfer of those rights,
the performer shall, as regards his or her live aural performances and performances fixed in
phonograms, have the right to claim to be identified as the performer of his or her