RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

Every popular performer in demand on the foreign market can record abroad, or can produce his own recording on recorđ or cassette in the country. As the owner of the recording he can sell ог cede it to апу foreign producer he chooses. In doing so he vioiates no legal regulation, only апу exclusive contract he may happen to have. Yet, he harms the Yugoslav producer because, amongst other things, he has blocked his only way of earning foreign currencv, through export The IFPI is the international federation of the phonographic industry which seeks to protect the rights of the producers of records and other sound recordings. Its seat is in London and it was founded in 1933. It is the sole international body (a non-profit organization) representing record producers and it has an advisory status in the work of the UN Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The Federation represents the phonographic industry in non-commercial matters, primarily in regard to legal problems impinging on the industry as a whole, with special reference to legal regulations pertinent to the rights of record producers and their protection from unauthorized copying and public use (conventions and treaties). The IFPI represents the record industry at meetings of the Berne Convention and the World Convention for the Protection of Copyright, as well as at all meetings dealing directly or indirectly with questions related to the industry; and similarly in relahons with authors’ societies and the international organization that brings together authors’ and composers’ societies (CISAC); it is a mediatory in negotiations with the BIEM standard contracts for the phonographic industry (the latest dates from 1975). The IFPI has taken part in the conclusion of two important international conventions:

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