Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 2967

      The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 2967

COPYRIGHT RIGHTS IN PERFORMANCES

The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996

Made 26th November 1996
Coming into force 1st December 1996


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
1.  Citation, commencement and extent.
2.  Interpretation.
3.  Implementation of Directives, &c.
4.  Scheme of the regulations.
PART II
AMENDMENTS OF THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988
Satellite broadcasts and cable re-transmission
5.  Place where broadcast treated as made.
6.  Safeguards in relation to certain satellite broadcasts.
7.  Exercise of rights in relation to cable re-transmission.
8.  Meaning of wireless telegraphy.
Distribution right
9.  Issue of copies of work to the public: extension of right.
Rental and lending right
10.  Rental or lending of copyright work.
11.  Permitted lending of copyright works.
12.  Presumption of transfer of rental right in case of film production agreement.
13.  Rental and lending: applications to Copyright Tribunal.
14.  Right to equitable remuneration where rental right transferred.
15.  Consequential modification of provisions relating to licensing.
Publication right
16.  Publication right.
17.  Application of copyright provisions to publication right.
Authorship of films and certain photographs
18.  Authorship of films.
19.  Clarification of transitional provisions relating to pre-1989 photographs.
Performers' rights
20.  Extension of performers' rights.
21.  Performers' property rights.
22.  Licensing of performers' property rights.
23.  Performers' rights: power of Copyright Tribunal to give consent.
24.  Performers' rights: jurisdiction of Copyright Tribunal.
PART III
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS
General provisions
25.  Introductory.
26.  General rules.
27.  Saving for certain existing agreements.
Special provisions
28.  Broadcasts.
29.  Satellite broadcasting: international co-production agreements.
30.  New rights: exercise of rights in relation to performances.
31.  New rights: effect of pre-commencement authorisation of copying.
32.  New rights: effect of pre-commencement film production agreement.
33.  Right to equitable remuneration applicable to rental after 1st April 1997.
34.  Savings for existing stocks.
35.  Lending of copies by libraries or archives.
36.  Authorship of films.

 

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