Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000

Chapter 2

Infringement of Performers' Rights

Consent required for recording or live transmission of performance.

209.—A person infringes the rights of a performer conferred by section 203 where he or she, without the consent of the performer—

(a) shows or plays in public the whole or any substantial part of a qualifying performance, or

(b) broadcasts or includes in a cable programme service the whole or any substantial part of a qualifying performance,

by means of a recording which was, and which that person knows or has reason to believe was, made without the consent of the performer.