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Unless exclusive rights are expressly provided for, no monopoly on exploitation shall be
conferred on the entertainment promoter .
An entertainment promoter may not transfer the enjoyment of his contract without formal
consent given in writing by the author or his representative or the collective management
organization provided for in the present Law.
The period of validity of the exclusive rights afforded by a playwright may not exceed
five years; the suspension of performances for two consecutive years shall automatically
put an end to it.
ARTICLE 50 "Entertainment promoter" means any natural or legal person who or which,
occasionally or on a permanent basis, performs or arranges for the performance of works
protected under the present Law, in an establishment open to the public and by any means
whatsoever.
Any author, artist or group of artists that occasionally or on a permanent basis performs
its own repertoire shall also be deemed an entertainment promoter.
ARTICLE 51 An entertainment promoter shall be required to:
- obtain prior consent from the author or the collective management organization
provided for in the present Law;
- inform the author or his successors in title or the collective management
organization provided for in the present Law of the exact program of public
performances and of works performed;
- furnish the author or his successors in title or the collective management
organization with a certified statement of his takings;
- pay the author or his successors in title or the collective management
organization the stipulated amount of royalties;
- ensure that the technical conditions are such as to safeguard the intellectual and
moral rights of the author.
TITLE VIII
TERM OF PROTECTION
ARTICLE 52 Copyright shall last for the author's lifetime and for seventy (70) calendar
years as from the end of the year of his death.
ARTICLE 53 The economic rights in a work of joint authorship shall be protected for the
lifetime of the last surviving author and for seventy (70) years as from the end of the year
of his death.
ARTICLE 54 The economic rights in a work published anonymously, posthumously or
under a pseudonym shall be protected until the expiry of a period of seventy (70) years as
from the end of the calendar year in which such work was lawfully published for the first
time or, failing such event occurring during the seventy (70) years following the making