I. – Collective management organisations pay the sums due to right holders in respect of multi-territorial exploitation authorisations for online rights granted in respect of their musical works within a period not exceeding nine months from the end of the financial year in which they received the declaration of use of these works. This time limit and the accuracy of the amount of payments may only be waived due to causes attributable to the online service providers.
II. – For each payment made in accordance with I, the organisation shall provide the rights holder with at least the following information:
1° The period during which the uses for which the sums are due to it took place, as well as the territories in which these uses took place;
2° The billings made, the sums collected, the deductions made and the sums distributed by the organisation for each online right in any musical work that the rights holder has authorised it to represent and for each online service provider.
III. – The provisions of I apply to organisations that pay sums to other organisations under a representation agreement in accordance with Article L. 325-3. They are also required to provide these bodies with the information specified in II.
The recipient organisation pays these sums and communicates this information to the rights holders in question, unless the representation agreement provides otherwise.