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Copyright Act 1994

Performers' rights - Performers’ property rights relating to sound recordings

174B: Consent required to communicate or play sound recording to public

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"Getting permission to play a sound recording to the public"

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You have rights as a performer. Someone infringes these rights if they do something without your consent. They infringe your rights if they communicate or play a recording of your performance to the public without asking you. You can find more information about this in the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Legislation Act 2022. This law is part of the Copyright Act 1994.

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Part 9Performers' rights
Performers’ property rights relating to sound recordings

174BConsent required to communicate or play sound recording to public

  1. A performer’s rights are infringed by a person who, without the performer’s consent, and by means of a recording,—

  2. communicates to the public the whole or a substantial part of a performance; or
    1. plays in public the whole or a substantial part of a performance.

      Notes
      • Section 174B: replaced, on , by section 4 of the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Legislation Act 2022 (2022 No 59).