The publishing contract is terminated, without prejudice to the cases provided for by common law, by the preceding articles of this sub-section or by the articles of sub-section 2, when:
1° The publisher proceeds to the total destruction of the copies;
2° The publisher, after formal notice from the author setting a suitable time limit, has not proceeded to the publication of the work or, in the case of exhaustion, to its republication. In this case, the contract is automatically terminated. The edition is deemed to be out of print if two requests for delivery of copies addressed to the publisher are not met within three months.
In the event of the death of the author, if the work is unfinished, the contract is terminated in respect of the unfinished part of the work, unless agreement is reached between the publisher and the author’s successors in title.