Laws Article 34: (Bis 2) 1. Performers shall have the exclusive right to: a. Broadcast or transmit their live performance publicly and fixating it physically if it is not. b. Permit to directly or indirectly reproduce their performance that fixed in an audio recording in any way or form, permanently or temporarily, including electronic digital form. c. Distribute the audio recordings put on them their performance through sale or any other act transfers the ownership. d. Import copies of their audio recordings, whether or not this audio recording is prepared with the consent of the performer. c. Make any performance put in an audio recording available to the public in a wire or wireless manner, in a manner that enables members of the public to access it at any place or time chosen by any of them. 2. The performer shall have, independently from the financial rights of the performer, and even after the transfer of the ownership of these rights, the right to be attributed to him/ her his/ her audio performance or his/ her performance put in an audio recording, unless the negligence in attribution of the performance to him/ her is imposed by the method of benefitting from the performance, and he/ she may object to any distortion, misrepresentation or any other modification of his/ her performance could damage his/ her reputation. 3. Performers shall exclusively enjoy the right to financial usufruct of what they have performed for a period of (50) years calculated from the date on which the performance took place or the recording was put, as the case may be. 4. The producers of audio recordings exclusively have the right to: a. license to copy directly and indirectly their audio recordings in any way or form, whether temporarily or permanently, including electronic digital copying. b. Distribute their audio recordings by sale or any other way of transferring the ownership. c. Import copies of the audio recordings, whether or not these recordings are made with the permission of the producer. Official Gazette of Iraqi Issue No. (1957) 13 Date: 21/01/1971

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