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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-43

Collective agreements may provide for the management of the rights mentioned in articles L. 132-38 et seq. to be entrusted to one or more collective management bodies governed by Title II of Book III.

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Section 6: Right to use journalists' works

Article L132-41

Where the author of a still image is a professional journalist who derives most of his or her income from the exploitation of such works and who occasionally contributes to the preparation of a press…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Special provisions relating to certain uses of orphan works

Article L135-4

…not required to carry out the searches mentioned in the same Article. It must indicate, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the said Article, the use of the orphan work that it intends to…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L211-4

…' economic rights is fifty years from 1 January of the calendar year following that of the performance.However, if, during this period, a fixation of the performance in a videogram or phonogram is mad…

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Chapter IV: Provisions common to performers and phonogram producers

Article L214-4

In the absence of an agreement reached before 30 June 1986, or if no agreement has been reached on the expiry of the previous agreement, the scale of remuneration and the terms of payment of the remun…

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Chapter IV: Special provisions relating to the digital exploitation of unavailable books

Article L134-4

I. - The author of an unavailable book or the publisher holding the right to reproduce that book in printed form may object to the exercise of the right of authorisation referred to in the first parag…

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section 2: Contracts concluded between a performer and a videogram producer

Article L212-4

The signing of a contract between a performer and a producer for the production of an audiovisual work constitutes authorisation to fix, reproduce and communicate the performer's performance to the pu…

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Chapter VIII: Special provisions relating to the exploitation of certain unavailable works

Article L138-4

An author or his successors in title may object to an approved collective management organisation issuing exploitation authorisations on their behalf. This objection may relate to a work or a group of…

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Chapter VII: Provisions applicable to satellite broadcasting, communication on an ancillary online service and simultaneous, unabridged and unchanged retransmission

Article L217-4

…conditions mentioned in II of article L. 132-20-3, on national territory, of a performer's performance, a phonogram or a videogram broadcast by any process, other than online transmission, from a Memb…

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Chapter III: Remuneration for library loans

Article L133-4

…publishers on the basis of the number of copies of books purchased each year, for their libraries receiving the public for lending, by the legal entities mentioned in the third paragraph (2°) of artic…

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