(1) The performer shall have the right to perform the following acts:-
(a) To take one’s performance to the general public through broadcasting or communication,
(b) To determine modality or medium of making one’s performance and reproduce it,
(c) To take one’s performance to the general public for the first time by making performance or selling or transferring copies thereof or
changing ownership,
(d) To rent copies of one’s performance,
(e) To take the performance produced through the determined modality or medium to the general public in an easily available
manner, through wire or wireless equipment,
(f) To amend or revise one’s performance.
(2) The performer shall not be allowed to re-exercise the rights  mentioned in Sub-section (1) once he/she has authorized his/her performance to
be incorporated in audio-visual medium.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-section (2), the performer shall have the right to have his/her identity maintained as the performer of
direct audio performance as well as of the performance incorporated in the sound recording and to make a claim for the same, and, where any person has
so mutilated or distorted his/her performance or otherwise deformed his performance by mutilating the meaning as to prejudice his/her reputation or
goodwill, to prevent such acts.
(4) Nothing mentioned in this Section shall be deemed to have any effect on the right of a performer to enter into, or to be agreed on, an agreement with
such terms as may yield much more benefits or facilities to him/her from the performance.
(5) The right conferred to the performer pursuant to this Section shall be protected for a period of fifty years from the year of incorporation of
performance in sound recording device, and for a period of fifty years from the year of such performance where such incorporation has not been made.