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

The collective management organisation sets and makes public the terms of termination, in particular the period of notice, which may not exceed six months. It may, however, provide that termination does not take effect until the end of the financial year. Termination may not be made subject to the condition that management of the rights in question be entrusted to another collective management organisation.

If sums are owed to a rights holder for acts of exploitation performed before his request for total or partial termination took effect, or under an exploitation authorisation granted before that effective date, he retains the rights conferred on him by the provisions of the third and fourth paragraphs of article L. 324-10, I and II of article L. 324-12, articles L. 324-14, L. 324-18, L. 325-7, I and II…

The provisions of this chapter do not apply when the rights in question are managed by the organisation pursuant to the provisions of articles L. 122-10, L. 132-20-1, L. 133-2, L. 134-3, L. 214-5, L. 217-2 and L. 311-6.