Exhibitors of cinematographic establishments transmit to distributors the data extracted from the operating logs of digital projection equipment relating to the exhibition of long-running cinematographic works that these distributors have made available to them. However, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée may, on behalf of the exhibitors, transmit the data to the distributors concerned.
Exhibitors also send the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée the data extracted from the aforementioned operating logs relating to all uses of their digital projection equipment.
Operators of cinematographic entertainment establishments or installers of their digital projection equipment shall send the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée the certificates for this equipment.
Distributors and advertising managers who make works or cinematographic or audiovisual documents available to cinema exhibitors in the form of digital files, or the laboratories that produce the digital files for these distributors and managers, shall send the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée the unique universal identifiers of these digital files as well as the international standard numbers of the works and documents concerned or any number enabling them to be identified.
The methods and frequency of transmission of the data, certificates, identifiers and numbers mentioned in this article, as well as the methods and duration of storage of this information, are set by decision of the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée.