Performers' Rights, 4th Edition

Performers' Rights is an essential handbook for practitioners advising performers, their representatives, exploiters of performers' rights and their representatives. This new 4th edition provides an in-depth treatment on performers' statutory rights under Part II of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act together with broad coverage of the legal position of performers more generally. 
 

• Provides an in-depth treatment of performers' statutory rights under Part II of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act together with broad coverage of the legal position of performers more generally
• Presents a historical look at performers' rights in the UK
• Goes into detail on the subsistence and duration of performers' rights
• Covers a performer’s right to equitable remuneration
• Provides a detailed examination of the various ways in which a performers' rights can be infringed
• Explains the permitted acts and defences in relation to potential infringements
• Covers the process and procedure for enforcing performers' rights and recording rights
• Explains the different remedies available when there has been an infringement on performers' rights, namely injunctions, damages or accounts of profits, delivery up, seizure and forfeiture
• Features a new chapter on moral rights as established by the recent Performances (Moral Rights, etc.) Regulations 2006
• Provides an analysis of the situations in which criminal offences can occur, including the possible defences, how these are enforced and the possible penalties
• Covers performers' contracts, including assignments of performers' rights, licences of performers' rights, consent clauses and enforcement of performers' contracts
• Considers breach of confidence, invasion of privacy, the right to control the use of one's image and defamation
• Covers performers rights in other countries
• Specifies which performers rights are covered under the Rome Convention, TRIPS Agreement and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
• Reproduces the relevant parts of legislation, rules, regulations, treaties, conventions and agreements
• Details the rights which aren’t covered by Part II of the amended Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 with numerous case citations