Section 2: Exploitation of works by providers of online content-sharing services

I.-By providing access to copyright-protected works uploaded by its users, the provider of an online content sharing service performs an act of representation of these works for which it must obtain authorisation from the rightholders, without prejudice to the authorisations that it must obtain under the reproduction right for the reproductions of the said works that it makes. I.-The provider of an online content sharing service does not have to…

Under the conditions set out in articles L. 324-8-1 to L. 324-8-6, the contract by which an approved collective management organisation authorises an online content sharing service provider to exploit the works of authors of the graphic and plastic arts may be extended to rights holders who are not members of this organisation by order of the Minister responsible for culture.