Examination of WIPO Draft Law on Protection of Audiovisual Performances

The Rome convention 1967, protects performers for the first time but protection on audiovisual performances was limited by the article 19.The protection of performers were exceed in audiovisual performances in proposed draft on WPPT but the protection of audiovisual performances were excluded in the WPPT treaty. So the meeting including WIPO members and  unions was held in March 1997. After analyzing national and international laws and member states proposal for the protocol, a diplomatic conference was held for preparing the final proposed treaty on protection of audiovisual performances at Geneva in December 7-20, 2000. In this article, main proposal treaty and proposal by United States of America and European  union on protection of audiovisual performances will be analyzed comparatively.