1. Related (or neighbouring) rights
• Performers, producers, broadcasting agencies
• International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and
Broadcasting Organisations (Rome Convention, 1961)
• WIPO Performances and and Phonograms Treaty (1996)
• Right to prevent fixation (recording), broadcasting and communication to the public
• Moral rights
• Examples: sporting events, concerts
• Minimum duration of protection: 20 years from the end of the year in which the perfomance
took place, the fixation is made, or the broadcast took place
• India: broadcast reproduction right subsists for 25 years from year of broadcast; performer's
right for 50 years from the year of performance
