The Research On Performers’ Rights

On June26,2012, the Diplomatic Conference on the protection of audiovisual performances of the World Intellectual Property Organization was concluded in Beijing. The conference signed a treaty called "Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances", which protects performers’ rights. This treaty will combine "Rome Convention","Trips Agreement" and WPPT together to protect performers’ rights completely. This paper will introduce and analyze the systems and characteristics of performers’ rights protection in international treaties and different countries’ legislation, in order to give advice to our system.The research on the performers’ rights can be divided into five part, one is the development of performers’ rights system under international treaties, to introduce the important revise and supplement. Secondly, using comparative study to research the performers’ rights systems in different counties, such as Japan, Germany, England and America. Thirdly, to discuss the content of performers’ rights, which is the initial question of the system, including moral rights and economic rights. Fourthly, to discuss the subject and the object of performers’ rights, which is the subordinate question of the system, this part of content have developed in the last few years in Chinese legislation and international treaties and the trend is to broad the rights of performers. Fifthly, to study the situation of the system in our country, about its current situation and its improvement in the future. In this part, there are content of problems in legislation and in actual trials. Based on problems existed, this research will give some advice in the last.According to collecting and reading data from internal and external channels, the research has mastered the newest information and situation of performers’ rights systems, meanwhile, the research has based on comparative study to get something advanced. Therefore, the discussions and analysis in this paper are significant and valuable to the study of performers’ rights.