WIPO

SCCR/3/8
ORIGINAL: English
DATE: November 10, 1999

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION

GENEVA

STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT
AND RELATED RIGHTS

Third Session

Geneva, November 16 to 20, 1999

AGENDA ITEM 4: PROTECTION OF AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES
ADDITIONAL PROPOSAL OF JAPAN CONCERNING MORAL RIGHTS1

ADDITIONAL PROPOSAL OF JAPAN ON A PROTOCOL TO THE WIPO PERFORMANCES AND PHONOGRAMS TREATY CONCERNING AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES2

Article 6

Moral Rights of Performers

Contracting Parties shall accord, mutatis mutandis, to performers, as regards their unfixed audiovisual performances, whether or not accompanied by sound, or their performances fixed in audiovisual fixations, the same rights as those provided for in Article 5 (Moral Rights of Performers) of the WPPT.

Comment:

Further consideration should be given to the scope and manner of the application of Moral Rights from such a viewpoint as the normal exploitation of performances fixed in audiovisual fixations.

1 Received on November 10, 1999.

2 That initial proposal is contained in document SCCR/1/4 as well as in the Comparative Table
of Proposals, document SCCR/2/4. A supplementary explanation of it is contained in document SCCR/3/3.

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