سرى حسين جابرأ.د طارق كاظم عجيل2024-11-242024-11-242021-03-09https://dspace.utq.edu.iq/handle/123456789/316It is well known fact that the law represents the front facet of society, for It is a reflection of the society’s values, principles, and economic and social conditions. This saying applies to the field of our research, since the development of society in all its fields gives drive to create new moral rights, especially in the field of intellectual property. National laws have expressed interest in providing protection for the author only and overlooked many other categories, most notably the performing artist, especially since these categories have as much importance as the author. To encounter this marginalization that was facing the artist, international conventions decided to be the initiative in protecting this artist, so the Rome Convention of 1961 surfaced , followed by the WIPO Convention of 1996. And on the approach of these agreements and after the developments in the means of publishing and communication that made the artist have a great impact on society, so the laws took action to protect the artist, including the French intellectual property law which is one of the most prominent and early laws that regulated the rights of the performing artist in detail, as well as the Egyptian intellectual property law, for it functions on addressing the rights of the performing artist, starting from defining the performing artist leading to his literary and financial rights ,to the characteristics that this artist should be distinguished by. Whereas in these laws the legislator refers to the necessity of distinguishing between the legal position of the performing artist and the author, in the French law it states that in the event of conflict between copyright and the right of the performing artist, copyright overrides the rights of the rest of the parties participating in the artistic work without setting conditions for the supremacy of this right . The jurisprudence began to explain this rule, and we noticed that the judiciary had relied on many Abstractothertext::thesis::master thesis