- 68 Rights of broadcasting organisations Supplement to Official Gazette [2lstApril 2014] 26.(1) A broadcasting organisation shall have the exclusive right to carry out or to authorise any of the following acts­ (a) the rebroadcasting of its broadcast; (b) the communication to the public of its broadcast; (c) the fixation of its broadcast; or (d) the reproduction of a fixation of its broadcast. (2) The rights under this section shall be protected from the moment when the broadcasting takes place until the end of the fiftieth calendar year following the year in which the broadcast takes place. (3) Any program-carrying signals transmitted by satellite which are not intended for direct reception by the public, but for simultaneous or subsequent broadcasting or cable distribution by an authorised receiving organisation, may not be broadcast or cormmmicated to the public by any person without authorisation of the person or legal entity that decided what program the emitted signal would carry. Limitations on protection 27. Sections 2 3, 24, 25 and 26 shall not apply where, without commercial advantage, the acts referred to in those sections are related to­ (a) using short excerpts for reporting current events to the extent justified by the purpose of providing current information; (b) reproduction solely for scientific research; (c) reproduction solely for the purpose of face­ to-face or distance teaching activities; except for performances and phonograms which have been published as teachin g or instmctional materials; or ------: