https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&... [Guide to Planning for PERFORMING AND CREATIVE ARTISTS]

Theoretically, any activity done to a supreme degree of 'perfection' can be called art. Thus a PERFORMING ARTIST (e.g., a singer) can perform a song so skillfully and with such great expression and conviction that it can be a work of art. Ordinarily, the CREATIVE ARTIST (composer, visual artist, choreographer, etc.) is the true artist, and the performer just that, a PERFORMING ARTIST.
http://www.ndoylefineart.com/artmaking2.html

Rights Payments consists of payments to the CREATIVE ARTIST, i.e. composer or author of royalties, the performing artist when the music is performed and the producers, i.e. record companies and others in charge of the recording of the sound recordings published. Rights Payments consists of payments to the CREATIVE ARTIST, i.e. composer or author of royalties, the PERFORMING ARTIST when the music is performed and the producers, i.e. record companies and others in charge of the recording of the sound recordings published.
https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/documentationo...

The 200-odd pages here - https://www.artscouncil.ie/uploadedFiles/LWCA_Study_-_Final_... [The Living and Working Conditions of Artists in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland] refer to creative artists, performing artists, and interpretive artists
"This applies to CREATIVE ARTISTS (defined as including writers, visual artists and composers and excluding PERFORMING ARTISTS) who qualify for residency in ROI [ ... ] Following the distinction in the ROI tax exemption, the IMS survey (IMS, 1980) gathered data for ‘creative artists’ (e.g. painters and writers) and ‘INTERPRETATIVE ARTISTS’ (e.g. singers and actors)."

If anyone would care to read it from start to finish, I'd appreciate a resumé of the differences between the three.



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Note added at 1 day 1 hr (2023-01-20 19:19:44 GMT)
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Forgot the excerpt from EGROVE... first above:
Authors, songwriters, sculptors, and painters create books, plays, songs, sculptures, and paintings. When produced in multiple formats for marketing, the CREATIVE ARTISTS are generally selling the right to use or reproduce their creations to a licensee, for a specified period of time. The licensee receives the right to mass produce the property for the agreed-upon time period and earns the revenue from sales of the mass produced version. One of the licensee’s costs of producing the property is a royalty fee that is paid to the creator. The royalty payment is generally based upon the number of units sold by the licensee. Alternatively, PERFORMING ARTISTS perform the works of creative artists. Their performances, however, can be captured and preserved for replay through a variety of mediums. For example, sales of a music album will generate royalties not only for the CREATIVE ARTIST songwriters, but also for the PERFORMING ARTIST musicians.