Copyright Act 1994

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

170D: Exceptions to right to be identified as performer

You could also call this:

"When you don't have to be named as a performer"

You have rights as a performer, but there are some exceptions. Your rights are not infringed if it is not reasonably practicable to identify you as stated in section 170A and section 170B. You are not identified when performing for news or advertising. You are also not identified in cases outlined in sections 175 to 176, 177(2), 181, and 182, which relate to your rights under subpart 4. These exceptions apply to your rights as a performer. They are part of the law that protects your rights.

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170C: Right to be identified as performer must be asserted, or

"You must say you want to be named as a performer to keep this right."

170E: Right relating to derogatory treatment of performance, or

"Protection from bad treatment of your performance"

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

170DExceptions to right to be identified as performer

A performer’s rights are not infringed as referred to in section 170A in any of the following cases:
if it is not reasonably practicable to identify the performer (or, if applicable, the group) in accordance with section 170B:
in relation to any performance given for the purposes of reporting current events:
in relation to any performance given for the purposes of advertising any goods or services:
by an act that, under any of sections 175 to 176, 177(2), 181, and 182, would not infringe the performer’s rights conferred by subpart 4.

Notes

Section 170D: inserted, on 30 December 2018, by section 18 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018 (2016 No 90).