COPYRIGHT- SEPTEMBER !990 ducers and producers of radio and teleyision broad· casts in the following cases: -for performers, where: the performer is a Gabonese national, the performance takes place on Gabonese territory, the performance is fixed on a protected phonogram; -for phonogram producers, where: · . the producer is a Gabonese national, .· ' the first fixation of the sounds has been ··' ,, ·made in the Gabonese Republic, · ·. ., the phonogram was first published in the :. ·.. Gabonese Repubiic; :--for radio and :television producers . ,·. . . . ' where: '· ' . the headquarters of the radio or television · organi~ation are loc~ted on Gabonese territory, ..:. · t_he radio or television broadcast has been transmitted from a st~tio·n located on ... ·· ··· Gabonese territory. ')'' : ':-.: , , i .·' . Artie{f.?9. This Law shall also apply to perfor·mances: - 'phonograms and radio and television broadcasts protected under international conventions to which Gabon is party. /I , LAWS AND TREATIES for purposes other than those referred to in Article 85 below. Article 81. Failing agreement to the contrary or conditions of employment to the contrary, the authorization to diffuse shall not imply the right to permit other television or radio organizations to emit or fix the performance or to reproduce the fixation. The authorization to fix the performance and to reproduce such fixation shall not imply the right to diffuse the performance from the fixation or its reproductions. Chapter III Authorization of the Phonogram Producers Article 82. No one may accomplish any of the following acts without the authorization of the phonogram producer: -the direct or indirect reproduction of copies of the phonogram ; -the importation and distribution to the public of such copies. Chapter IV • _J; ' Chapter II Authorization of the Radio and Television Organizations ·· - Authorization of the Performers --· · Artic/e-:80. No one may accomplish any of the following acts without the authorization of the performers or their duly accredited representatives: ·:. qhe ; diffusion of their performance, except where'diffusion is effected from a fixation or where it is·ar ebroadcast authorized by the radio or television orga:nizatiorr:that emitted the original performan-ce; . f -communication to the public of their performance, except where communication is made from a fixation of the performance; -fixation of their unfixed performance ; -reproduction of a fixation of their performance in any of the following cases: where the performance has been initially fixed without their authorization, where the reproduction is made for purposes other than those for which the performers gave their authorization, where the performance has been initially fixed, but the reproduction alone is made GABON _:·Te xt . l; ci.( page 10 . ·- Article 83. No one may accomplish any of the following acts without the authorization of the radio or television organization: -the rebroadcasting of its radio or television broadcasts; -the fixation of its radio or television broadcasts; -the reproduction of a fixation of its radio or television broadcasts. Article 84. The protection of all neighboring rights within the meaning of this Law shall subsist for a period of twenty years as from the end of the year in which they were first effected. Chapter V Limitation on Protection Article 85. The provisions concerning protection of neighboring rights shall not apply in the following cases: GA