Section 38 Copyright Act 1957 (as amended in 2012) confers 'performer's rights'. The performer's rights last for:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A.
1. Section 38(2) Copyright Act 1957 (as amended in 2012): 'The performer's right shall subsist until fifty years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the performance is made.'
2. Section 38A (inserted 2012) confers EXCLUSIVE rights of performers — to make sound/visual recording of performance; reproduction of recording; issue of copies; communication to public; sale or commercial rental; etc.
3. Section 38B (inserted 2012) confers MORAL rights of performers — right to be identified as performer and right to integrity (object to distortion).
4. India ratified the WPPT Treaty 1996 in 2018; the 2012 amendment aligned domestic law with WPPT.
5. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Patents Act 1970 / Copyright Act 1957 / Trade Marks Act 1999 (Bare Acts, IPIndia portal + Copyright Office) — Copyright Act 1957, Section 38_
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