Article 1183

performer means an actor, singer, musician, dancer or any other person who acts, sings, delivers or otherwise performs a literary or artistic work;

fixation means the fixing of sounds, images or a combination thereof, for the first time, on any object suitable for reproducing or communicating to the public such a fixation;

reproduction means the manufacture of one or more copies of a fixation or of a part of a fixation;

phonogram means any fixation or reproduction of such fixation of the sounds only, of a performance, or of other sounds; and

phonogram producer means the natural or legal person who first manufactures a phonogram or first has a phonogram manufactured.