Where the proceeds of exploitation accruing to the author of a work of the mind have been subject to seizure, the president of the judicial court may order the payment to the author, by way of maintenance, of a certain sum or a specified proportion of the sums seized.
Insofar as they are of a maintenance nature, sums due, by reason of the pecuniary exploitation or transfer of literary or artistic property rights, to all authors, composers or artists as well as to their surviving spouse against whom there is no judgment of legal separation that has become res judicata, or to their minor children taken in their capacity as successors in title, shall be exempt from seizure.
The unseizable proportion of these sums may in no case be less than four-fifths, where they are at most equal annually to the highest level of resources provided for pursuant to Chapter V of Title IV of Book I of the Labour Code.
The provisions of this chapter shall not preclude seizures made with a view to the recovery of maintenance claims provided for by the provisions of the Civil Code.
In the event of a breach of the provisions of article L. 122-8, the purchaser and the judicial officers may be ordered jointly and severally to pay damages to the beneficiaries of the resale right.
The competent judicial police officers may proceed, as soon as the offences provided for in Articles L. 335-4 à L. 335-4-2, the seizure of illegally reproduced phonograms and videograms, illegally manufactured or imported copies and objects, any copy, product, apparatus, device, component or means infringing technological measures and the information mentioned respectively in articles L. 331-5 and L. 331-11 as well as the seizure of equipment specially installed with a…
Any edition of writings, musical composition, drawing, painting or any other production, printed or engraved in whole or in part, in defiance of the laws and regulations relating to authors’ property, is an infringement and any infringement is an offence. Counterfeiting in France of works published in France or abroad is punishable by three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 euros. The debit, export, import, transhipment or possession for…
It is punishable by three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 euros to: 1° Publish, make available to the public or communicate to the public, knowingly and in any form whatsoever, software manifestly intended for the unauthorised making available to the public of protected works or objects; 2° Knowingly encourage, including through an advertisement, the use of software mentioned in 1°.
It is also an infringement offence to reproduce, represent or distribute, by any means whatsoever, a work of the mind in violation of the author’s rights, as defined and regulated by law. It is also an infringement offence to violate any of the rights of the author of software as defined in Article L. 122-6. It is also an infringement offence to capture all or part of a cinematographic or…
I.-A fine of €3,750 shall be imposed for knowingly undermining, for purposes other than research, an effective technological measure as defined in article L. 331-5, in order to alter the protection of a work by decoding, decrypting or any other personal intervention intended to circumvent, neutralise or remove a protection or control mechanism, where this infringement is carried out by means other than the use of a technological application, device…
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