This study provides a comprehensive overview of performers’ rights in Europe, emphasizing the need to adapt legal frameworks to modern technological realities. It highlights the challenges performers face in securing fair remuneration, especially regarding streaming and digital uses, and underscores the crucial role of collective management organizations in protecting performers’ interests. The study also stresses the ongoing discrimination against audiovisual performers compared to musical performers and calls for harmonized, technology-neutral policies to ensure equitable remuneration and transparency in rights exploitation.

Performers’ Rights in International and European Legislation: Situation and Elements for Improvement