Audiovisual performance

Audiovisual performances are performances by performers such as singers, musicians, dancers and actors in Audiovisual Media such as a DVD, a music video or any other audiovisual platform.{{Cite web|last=Welinder|first=Carolina Rossini, Mitch Stoltz, and Yana|date=2012-07-24|title=Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances: We Need to Read the Fine Print|url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/beijing-treaty-audiovisual-performances|access-date=2020-08-22|website=Electronic Frontier Foundation|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Audiovisual Performances|url=https://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/activities/audio_visual.html|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.wipo.int|language=en}} The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has prepared a number of analyses and surveys mapping the protection of audiovisual performances in many different countries.{{Cite web|title=Audiovisual Performances – Analyses and Surveys|url=https://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/activities/audio_visual_studies.html|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.wipo.int|language=en}} Until 2012 audiovisual performances were denied any meaningful protection at international level.{{Cite web|last=Aggarwal|first=Anu|date=2020-01-29|title=Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances Comes into Force|url=https://abclive.in/beijing-treaty-on-audiovisual-performances/|access-date=2020-08-22|website=ABC Live India|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=AV Remuneration study-EN|url=https://www.cisac.org/Media/Studies-and-Reports/Publications/AV-Study/AV-Study|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.cisac.org}} The WIPO multilateral treaty acknowledging for the first time the intellectual property rights of performers with regard to their audiovisual performances called the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances.{{Cite web|title=WIPO-Administered Treaties|url=https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=841|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.wipo.int|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2016-02-10|title=Message to the Senate -- The Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/10/message-senate-beijing-treaty-audiovisual-performances|access-date=2020-08-22|website=whitehouse.gov|language=en}}