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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 195ANB Exercise of performer's moral rights

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 195ANB

Exercise of performer's moral rights

  (1)   If a performer in a live performance or recorded performance dies, the performer's moral rights in respect of the performance may be exercised and enforced by his or her legal personal representative.

  (2)   If the affairs of a performer in a live performance or recorded performance are lawfully administered by another person (except under a law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors), the performer's moral rights may be exercised and enforced by the person administering his or her affairs.

  (3)   Subject to this section, a moral right in respect of a live performance or recorded performance is not transmissible by assignment, by will, or by devolution by operation of law.

  (4)   If there are 2 or more performers in a live performance or recorded performance, then the performers may enter into a written co - performership agreement by which each of them agrees not to exercise his or her right of integrity of performership in respect of the live performance or recorded performance, as the case may be, except jointly with the other performer or performers.

  (5)   A co - performership agreement has effect according to its terms.