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Bahrain, Kingdom of
Copyright and Related Rights
6. Please describe the protection the copyright law of Bahrain provides for performers, and the term of the protection.
Article 15 of the draft Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights provides: "Performers shall enjoy in respect of their performances the following exclusive rights: 1. To broadcast or communicate their unfixed performances to the public. 2. To fix their unfixed performances on phonograms. 3. To reproduce their fixed performances on phonograms. 4. Authorise commercial rental or lending to the public of an original or copies of their fixed performances." Article 34 of the draft Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights provides: The term of protection to a performance is for a period of 50 years computed from the first day of the Gregorian calendar year following the year in which the performance was first fixed on a phonogram or, in the absence of such fixation, the year in which the performance took place.