United States of America
Luxembourg
Copyright and Related Rights
9. Article 12 of the Luxembourg neighbouring rights law grants a term of protection to phonogram producers and performers equal to twenty years from fixation of the phonogram or twenty years from when the performance took place. Article 14 of TRIPS requires that the term of protection be fifty years from the fixation of the phonogram and fifty years from when the performance took place. Please explain how Article 12 complies with the requirements of TRIPS Article 14.
The new draft amendment provides actually a protection of fifty years, according to the EC Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993.