Book III: General provisions relating to copyright, related rights and the rights of database producers

Regularly constituted collective management organisations are entitled to take legal action to defend the rights for which they are statutorily responsible and to defend the material and moral interests of their members, in particular within the framework of professional agreements concerning them. They are also entitled to sit on the bodies competent to deliberate on matters of social protection, welfare and training for the rights holders they represent, subject to…

Collective management organisations allow their members and other rightholders whose economic rights they manage to communicate with them by electronic means, in particular to exercise the rights granted to them under this code, notably as regards information, participation in collective decisions and control of the organisation.

Collective management organisations established in France are subject to the provisions of this Title. Collective management organisations established outside the European Union managing the rights of exploitation in France of works or other protected objects, are subject to the provisions of the first, second and fourth paragraphs of Article L. 324-6, Articles L. 324-7, L. 324-8, L. 324-12 to L. 324-14, the second paragraph of Article L. 326-2, Articles L….

Collective management organisations are governed by the provisions specific to the legal form in which they are constituted, subject to the provisions of this Title.