French Intellectual Property Code

A rights holder may terminate at any time, in whole or in part, within the limits set by the organisation and mentioned in the second paragraph of Article L. 322-3, the authorisation he has given to the collective management organisation to manage his economic rights.

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…