Copyright Act 1994

Performers' rights - Miscellaneous provisions - Duration and transmission of rights

194E: Transmission of performers’ property rights

You could also call this:

"Passing on a performer's rights to someone else"

You can pass on a performer's property rights to someone else. This can happen in a few ways, such as when you assign them, leave them in your will, or by law. You can pass on all or just some of these rights. When you pass on a performer's property rights, you can limit what the new owner can do with them. For example, you can say they can only use the rights for certain things or for a certain amount of time. If more than one person gets the property rights, they have to work together to use them. You can find more information about how this law was changed by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018.

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194D: Transmission of performers’ rights relating to consent for recording or live transmission and to film recordings on death, or

"What happens to a performer's rights after they die"

194F: Assignment, or

"Signing over performer's rights to someone else"

Part 9Performers' rights
Miscellaneous provisions: Duration and transmission of rights

194ETransmission of performers’ property rights

A performer’s property rights are transmissible, as personal or moveable property, by—
assignment; or
testamentary disposition; or
operation of law.

Transmission of a performer’s property rights may be partial, that is, limited so as to apply—
to 1 or more, but not all, of the things the person entitled to exercise the performer’s property rights has the right to do:
to part, but not the whole, of the period for which the performer’s property rights are to exist.

If a performer’s property rights become exercisable by more than 1 person, the rights are not exercisable independently and must be exercised by all rights holders acting together.

Notes

Section 194E: inserted, on 30 December 2018, by section 29 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018 (2016 No 90).