Copyright/France-out of commerce works

The French government has just published the decree (27/02/2013) regarding the online exploitation of out of commerce works from the 20th century. Article 1 deals with the modalities of the database of out of commerce works and the publicity towards rights holders. It also fixes the procedures to allow authors to oppose the inclusion into the database and the collective management. Article 2 deals with the condition of attribution to the collective management organisations.

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