2017 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 57 PATENT RIGHTS AND COPYRIGHTS
Article 2 MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC-MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
57-224 Prohibited acts.
57-224. Prohibited acts. (a) No agent or employee of a performing rights society shall:
(1) Enter onto the premises of a proprietor's business for the purpose of discussing a contract for payment of royalties for the use of copyrighted works by that proprietor without first identifying the agent or employee to the proprietor or the proprietor's employees; or
(2) collect or attempt to collect from a proprietor licensed by that performing rights society a royalty payment or any other fee except as provided in a contract executed pursuant to the provisions of this act.
(b) Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit a performing rights society from informing the proprietor of the proprietor's obligations under the federal copyright law, title 17 of the United States Code.
History: L. 1996, ch. 102, § 4; July 1.
Section was not printed in bound volume of the Kansas Statutes Annotated.
