particular territory;
(f) Subscription services provided for encrypted
television channels, such as cable and over-the-air, or
free-to-air, broadcasting;
(g) Music composers’ rights that are linked to the
sale of records paid through collecting societies;
(h) Performing rights related to live musical or
theatrical performance;
(i) Rights for theatrical releases abroad by drama
companies;
(j) Musical shows produced abroad.
3.148. Excluded are, for example, all goods, but the sale
and purchase of video tapes, compact discs and video
discs are included.
3.149. It should be noted that fees and rights may be
paid on a number of different bases, including pay-per-
view, number of video cassettes or disks produced, time
period, territory or size of the audience reached.
3.150. For musical works and television and radio
programmes, the management and collection of these
fees is often carried out by “performing rights
societies” or “collecting societies.” The enterprises
carrying out these transactions are mainly (a) producers
of audiovisual services and goods that receive
distributive rights (for example, when there is a
television or radio transmission), author/composers’
rights (for example, when records are sold), and
performing rights (for example, when a theatrical
company or an opera company is producing and
performing abroad); (b) television and radio channels
that pay rights for retransmission and encrypted
television channels receive income (both receipts and
payments should be recorded as audiovisual
transactions); or (c) performing rights societies, such as
the Société des auteurs compositeurs éditeurs de
musique or the Association for the Collective
Management of Audio-visual Works, which act as
intermediaries between producers and the media.