Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

117.   Consent required for recording or live transmission of performance

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    (1)   A performer's rights are infringed by a person who, without his or her consent—

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      (a)     makes, otherwise than for his or her private and domestic use, a recording of the whole or any substantial part of a qualifying performance; or

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      (b)     broadcasts live, or includes live in a cable programme service, the whole of any substantial part of a qualifying performance;

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      (c)     infringes his or her rights of distribution or right of making available to the public a fixed performance, by wire of wireless means. (Inserted by Act 7 of 1990)

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    (2)   In an action for infringement of a performer's rights brought by virtue of this section, damages shall not be awarded against a defendant who shows that at the time of the infringement he or she believed on reasonable grounds that consent had been given.