CHAPTER II

RIGHTS AND EXCEPTIONS

Right of communication to the public of works and right of making available to the public other subject-matter
Article 3
1
Member States shall provide authors with the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any communication to the public of their works, by wire or wireless means, including the making available to the public of their works in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.
2
Member States shall provide for the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the making available to the public, by wire or wireless means, in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place and at a time individually chosen by them:
a
for performers, of fixations of their performances;
b
for phonogram producers, of their phonograms;
c
for the producers of the first fixations of films, of the original and copies of their films;
d
for broadcasting organisations, of fixations of their broadcasts, whether these broadcasts are transmitted by wire or over the air, including by cable or satellite.
3
The rights referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not be exhausted by any act of communication to the public or making available to the public as set out in this Article.