Who is eligible to receive Neighboring Rights payments?
The Copyright Act details the conditions of eligibility for Neighboring Rights. Essentially, a sound recording is eligible if its maker is an individual who is a citizen or permanent resident of a qualifying country or of a Rome Convention country (see below), or if the makers corporation is headquartered in a qualifying country or in a Rome Convention country, or if all the fixations for the sound recording occurred in a qualifying country or a Rome Convention country. The Qualifying Countries are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain and N. Ireland, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Ireland, Slovak Re
