Chapter VII
Related rights
35. Of related rights the sound producers of
recordings, the companies and organizations of television and broadcasting are
famous holders, the publishers, the artists interpreters or executants, the
actors, the musicians, the singers, the members of musical groups, the dancers,
the artists of puppet theaters and the artists of circus.
36. The sound producers of recordings profit
from the protection conferred by the present law when
has) the producer of the sound recording native of
Lebanon or a country left to the International Convention on protection the
artists interpreters or executants, the producers of sound records and the
organizations of broadcasting, made in Rome on October 26, 1961;
b) the first fixing of its was carried out in a State
left with above-mentioned convention; or when
c) the sound recording was published for the first time
in a State left to above-mentioned convention. When the first fixing took
place in a State which did not leave to Convention Rome but that the sound
recording was also published, in the 30 days following the first publication,
in a State left with the aforementioned convention, this sound recording is
regarded as having been published for the first left time in the State.
37. The artists interpreters or executants
profit from the protection conferred by the present law when
has) interpretation or execution took place in Lebanon
or in a State left with Convention Rome;
b) interpretation or execution is fixed in a sound
recording protected under the terms of article 36 from this law; or when
c) interpretation or execution not fixed in a sound
recording is diffused by an emission protected under the terms of article 38
from this law.
38. The organizations and companies of
broadcasting or television profit from the protection provided by the present
law when
has) the principal seat of the organization or the
company is located at Lebanon or in a State left at Convention Rome; or
when
b) the program was diffused by a transmitter located on
the territory of Lebanon or a State left at Convention Rome.
39. Notwithstanding the provisions of article
15 of this law, the artists interpreters or executants have the right to
authorize or prohibit
-- broadcasting and the communication with the public of their
interpretations or not fixed executions, except when interpretation or
execution used is itself a repeat broadcast of an interpretation or execution
whose broadcasting had been authorized before;
-- fixing or the recording on a material support of their
interpretation or not fixed execution; and
-- reproduction, the sale or the hiring of recordings containing
a fixing not - authorized of their interpretation or execution.
40. The artists interpreters or executants who
take part collectively in a work or a representation elect in the majority
relative a representative charged to exert the rights which are conferred to
them under the terms of article 39 of this law.
41. The producers authorized by the artists
interpreters or executants to carry out the first fixing of a audio-visual work
on a material support have the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, sell
and rent the audio-visual work which they produced, like communicating it to
the public.
42. The companies, organizations and
establishments of broadcasting and television aimed to article 38 of this law
have the right to authorize or prohibit
-- the retransmission of their programs in some form that it
is;
-- the projection of their programs televised in places where
the entry is subordinated to the payment of an import duty;
-- fixing, at lucrative ends, their programs on material
supports;
-- reproduction of recordings not - authorized their televised
or broadcast programs.
43. The sound producers of recordings have the
right to authorize or prohibit the reproduction, direct or indirect, their
sound recordings and the hiring of the aforesaid recordings at lucrative
ends.
44. The artist interprets or executant enjoys,
his life during, of the right to the recognition of paternity of his
interpretation or execution, as well as right to be opposed to any deformation
or modification of his service. With its death, this right is reserved for its
heirs.
45. The editors of printed or handwritten
written works have the right to authorize or prohibit the reprographic
reproduction or the commercial exploitation of the aforesaid works.
46. Any contract relating to related rights
must be noted in writing by the contractors.
47. The exceptions aimed to articles 23 to 34
of this law apply to the laws aimed to articles 35 to 45 of this law.
48. The protection of the related rights does
not affect any the protection of the rights conferred on the works original or
derived under the terms of the present law. None the rights aimed in this
chapter can be interpreted like reducing the royalties of work.
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