Does not constitute a publishing contract, within the meaning of Article L. 132-1, the so-called author’s account contract.
With this type of contract, the author or his successors in title pay the publisher an agreed remuneration, with the latter being responsible for producing a number of copies of the work in the form and modes of expression specified in the contract, or for producing it or having it produced in digital form, and for publishing and distributing it.
This contract constitutes a lease of work governed by convention, custom and the provisions of articles 1787 et seq. of the Civil Code.