Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Improvements in broadcasting and recording technologies in the 20th century created the need for new intellectual property rights known as rights in performances to protect the revenues of actors, dancers, musicians. singers and other performers as well as those of their broadcasters and film and sound recording studios in the broadcasts and recordings of their work. In the United Kingdom, the rights of such performers are protected by Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 . Performers who are UK nationals or residents enjoy similar rights in other countries by virtue of the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations of 26 Oct 1961("Rome Convention") . Developments in digital technology towards the end of the last century required a strengthening of those rights which resulted in the WIPO Performances and Phonograms ...