French Intellectual Property Code
In forceI. - In order to grant authorisations for the multi-territorial exploitation of online rights in musical works, collective management organisations must comply with the following conditions:
1° Have the material and technical means to identify precisely, in whole or in part:
a) The musical works for which these exploitation authorisations are granted;
b) The rights and right holders corresponding to each musical work or part of a musical work, for each of the territories covered by these exploitation authorisations;
2° Make use of unique identifiers to identify each right holder and each musical work, taking into account, where they exist, voluntary sectoral standards and practices developed at international or European Union level ;
3° Use the necessary means to identify and correct inconsistencies in the data held by other collective management organisations, which grant authorisations for the multi-territorial exploitation of online rights in musical works, in coordination with these organisations.
II. - The processing of the data necessary for the management of authorisations for the multi-territorial exploitation of online rights in musical works must be transparent and allow the identification of the works for which these authorisations are granted and the monitoring of their use with a view to billing users, collecting and distributing the income due to right holders.
