Cap. 415 Art. 17Nature of broadcasters’ rights.

(1) Broadcasting organisations shall have the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit the doing in Malta of any of the following acts:

(a) the fixation of their broadcasts or initial cable transmissions;

(b) the direct or indirect, temporary or permanent reproduction by any means or form in whole or in part of fixations of their broadcast or initial cable transmissions as set out in paragraph (a) above;

(c) the distribution of fixation of their broadcasts or initial cable transmissions as set out in paragraph (a) above;

(d) the rebroadcasting of their broadcasts as well as the communication to the public of their broadcasts if such communication is made in places accessible to the public against payment of an entrance fee;

(e) the making available to the public, of fixations of their broadcast or initial cable transmissions as set out in (a) above, 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.

(2) A broadcasting organisation shall not have the right provided in sub-article (1)(a) above when it merely retransmits by cable the broadcasts of broadcasting organisations.