Article L135-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code
When the diligent, proven and serious searches mentioned in Article L. 135-3 have made it possible to identify and locate the holder or holders of the rights in a work, the work ceases to be orphan. When a work has more than one rightholder and it has not been possible to identify and locate all the rightholders, the use of the work provided for in article L. 135-2 is subject…