(1) Where a performer has granted or transferred rights in a performance to a producer of an audio medium against payment of a one-time fee, the producer of the audio medium is required to pay the performer additional remuneration in the amount of 20 per cent of the income which the producer of the audio medium earns from the reproduction, the sale and the making available to the public of the audio medium containing the performance. Where an audio medium contains the recording of performances by several performers, the amount of the remuneration likewise amounts to a total of 20 per cent of the income. ʻIncomeʼ means the income generated by the producer of the audio medium minus expenses.
(2) The right to remuneration exists for each full year immediately following the 50th year after publication of the audio medium containing the performance or, if it was not published, following the 50th year after its first legal use for communication to the public.
(3) Performers may not waive the entitlement to remuneration under subsection (1). The right to remuneration may only be asserted by a collecting society. It may only be assigned in advance to a collecting society.
(4) The producer of the audio medium is obliged, upon request, to provide a performer with information concerning the income generated and other information required to quantify the entitlement to remuneration under subsection (1).
(5) Where the performer has granted or transferred the rights in a performance to the producer of an audio medium against payment of a recurring fee, the producer of the audio medium may, after expiry of the following periods, deduct neither advances nor contractually specified deductions from the remuneration:
1. 50 years after release of the audio medium containing the performance or
2. 50 years after the first legal use of the audio medium containing the performance for communication to the public if the audio medium was not released.