Copyright Act, 1957 · Chapter VIII: Rights of Broadcasting Organisation and of Performers
Section 39A: Certain provisions to apply in case of broadcast reproduction right and performer’s rights
Sections 18, 19, 30, 30A, 33, 33A, 34, 35, 36, 53, 55, 58, 63, 64, 65, 65A, 65B and 66 shall, with necessary adaptations and modifications, apply in relation to the broadcast reproduction right in any broadcast and the performer's right in any performance as they apply in relation to copyright in a work:
Provided that where copyright to performers right subsists in respect of any work or performance that has been broadcast, no licence to reproduce such broadcast, shall be given without the consent of the owner of rights or performer, as the case may be, or both of them:
Provided further that the broadcast reproduction right or performers right shall not subsist in any broadcast or performance if that broadcast or performance is an infringement of the copyright in any work.
(2) The broadcast reproduction right or the performers right shall not affect the separate copyright in any work in respect of which, the broadcast or the performance, as the case may be, is made.]
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