Article 1

For the purposes of this Convention:

(a) “phonogram” means any exclusively aural fixation of sounds of a performance or of other sounds;

(b) “producer of phonograms” means the person who, or the legal entity which, first fixes the sounds of a performance or other sounds;

(c) “duplicate” means an article which contains sounds taken directly or indirectly from a phonogram and which embodies all or a substantial part of the sounds fixed in that phonogram;

(d) “distribution to the public” means any act by which duplicates of a phonogram are offered, directly or indirectly, to the general public or any section thereof.