Section 1: Common provisions

If the authorization given in application of article L. 212-3 provides for proportional remuneration, the phonogram producer may not deduct contractually defined advances or deductions from the remuneration due to the performer in return for exploitation of the phonogram containing the authorized fixation after the first fifty years of the seventy-year period provided for in 2° of I of article L. 211-4. .

Performers may not prohibit the reproduction and public communication of their performance if it is incidental to an event constituting the main subject of a sequence of a work or audiovisual document.

The provisions of article L. 131-9 are applicable to contracts constituting an authorisation of exploitation pursuant to articles L. 212-3 and L. 212-4, between producers and performers.