The evolution of performers' rights in the UK
- The rationale for protecting performers
- Copyright and neighbouring (related) rights
- Historical review
Subsistence and duration
- Subsistence of performers' rights
- Subsistence of recording rights
- Duration of performers' rights and recording rights
Ownership, licensing, equitable remuneration and the copyright tribunal
- First ownership
- Transmission of performers' rights
- Transmission of recording rights
- Joint ownership
- Licences
- Compulsory licensing
- Rights to equitable remuneration
- Collective licensing and the Copyright Tribunal
Infringement
- Infringement of performers' rights
- Infringement of recording rights
- Knowledge or reason for belief
- Territoriality
Permitted acts and defences
Proceedings
- Who may sue?
- Who may be sued?
- Venue
- Remedies
- Interim relief
Moral rights
- Right to be identified as performer
- Right to object to derogatory treatment
- Duration of moral rights
- Consent and waiver
- Transmission of rights
- Proceedings for infringement
- Remedies for infringement
Criminal law
- Principal offences
- Additional offences
- Inchoate offences
- Mens rea
- Defences
- Enforcement
- Search warrants
- Penalties
Performers' contracts
- Assignments of performers' property rights
- Licences of performers' rights (consents)
- Enforcement of performers' contracts
Other forms of protection for performers
- Copyright: performers as authors
- Basic requirements
- Copyright in sound recordings and films
- Copyright in sets, costumes and props
- Passing off
- Breach of confidence, invasion of privacy and the right to control the use of one's image
- Defamation
Performers' rights in other countries
- Summary of performers' rights under the Rome Convention
- Summary of performers' rights under TRIPs
- Summary of performers' rights under the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
- Table of countries
- Particular countries
