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CHAPTER VIII RIGHTS OF BROADCASTING ORGANISATION AND OF PERFORMERS

Section 38: Performer’s right

The Copyright Act, 1957

1[(1) Where any performer appears or engages in any performance, he shall have a special right to be known as the “performer’s right” in relation to such performance.

(2) The performer’s right shall subsist until 2[fifty years] from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the performance is made.

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Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 38 of 1994, s. 14, for section 38 (w.e.f. 10-5-1995).
  2. 2.Subs. by 49 of 1999, s. 4, for “twenty-five years” (w.e.f. 15-1-2000).
  3. 3.Sub-sections (3) and (4) omitted by Act 27 of 2012, s. 26 (w.e.f. 21-6-2012).

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