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Copyright Act 1994

Performers' rights - Performers’ moral rights - Right to be identified

170A: Right to be identified as performer

You could also call this:

"Know who's performing: your right to be named"

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You have rights as a performer. Your rights are infringed if you are not identified correctly. This happens when someone produces or puts on a public performance, communicates a live performance, communicates a recorded performance, or issues copies of a recorded performance without identifying you, as set out in section 170B. You must be identified when your performance is given in public or communicated to the public. This applies to sound recordings. Your rights are subject to certain conditions, as outlined in sections 170B to 170D and 170H.

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Part 9Performers' rights
Performers’ moral rights: Right to be identified

170ARight to be identified as performer

  1. A performer’s rights are infringed by a person referred to in subsection (2) if the performer is not identified in accordance with section 170B.

  2. The person is a person who—

  3. produces or puts on a performance that is given in public; or
    1. communicates live to the public a performance; or
      1. communicates to the public a recording of a performance; or
        1. issues to the public copies of a recording of a performance.

          1. Subsection (2)(c) and (d) applies only to a recording that is a sound recording.

          2. Subsection (1) is subject to sections 170B to 170D and 170H.

          Notes
          • Section 170A: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018 (2016 No 90).