On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Colin Seeger <seeger[_at_]ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> In the absence of any copyright or proprietary rights being granted
> to a performance (sorry for the apparent oxymoron, but it seems to
> be the only way to describe the legislative thinking), the fact
> that a recording was made without the artist's or the record
> company's consent, is immaterial.
Didn't TRIPS (and therefore signatories' implementations of it) change that picture by mandating the protection of performances? Singapore, at least, amended her Copyright Act in 1998 for TRIPS compliance, introducing new "performance rights" aimed at bootlegs.
I'm not sure how the transitional provisions deal with to pre-1998 performances though.
Xiao Jinhong
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