French Cinema and Moving Image Code
In forceThe Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée issues to all those who request it either a copy or an extract of the information entered in the public film and audiovisual register or the register of options and the documents submitted in support of entries or publications, or a certificate if there is no entry or publication. However, for option contracts registered under article L. 123-2, it only issues the name of the literary work, the name of the author and that of his successor in title, the name of the producer, the period of validity of the option and the indication that this period is renewable.
The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée is liable for any damage resulting from errors made in the performance of its task of keeping film and audiovisual registers, in particular :
1° The omission from the public film and audiovisual register or the register of options of the entries or publications required of it;
2° Failure to mention, in the statements or certificates that it issues, one or more existing registrations or publications, unless the error is due to insufficient designations that cannot be attributed to it.
Liability claims must be brought before a court within ten years of the date on which the error was committed, failing which the claim is barred.
The Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée shall keep a register in which shall be entered, day by day and in the order of the requests, the documents submitted to it with a view to their entry or publication, which may only be entered on the date and in the order of such submission.
