8
The authors' moral rights may be exercised by those authors only in respect of the
completed audiovisual work.
Article 27: Where one of the authors refuses to complete his contribution to an
audiovisual work or is unable to complete such contribution because of force majeure, he
may not object to the use of that part of his contribution already in existence for the
purpose of completion of the work. He shall have the status of author of such
contribution and shall enjoy the rights deriving therefrom.
Article 28: Unless otherwise stipulated, an author may not oppose the adaptation of
software within the scope of the rights that he has assigned or exercise his right to
reconsider or withdraw.
Article 29: Only the author shall be entitled to make a collection of his articles and
speeches and to publish them or to authorize the publication thereof in such form.
For all works thus published in a newspaper or periodical, the author shall retain the
right, unless otherwise stipulated, to have them reproduced and to exploit them in any
form whatsoever, provided that such reproduction or exploitation is not such as to
compete with the newspaper or periodical concerned.
Article 30: Under all matrimonial regimes and on pain of invalidity of any clause to the
contrary contained in a marriage contract, the right to disclose a work, to lay down the
conditions for its exploitation and to defend its integrity shall remain vested in the spouse
who is the author or in the spouse to whom such rights have been transferred. This right
may not be brought as a dowry or acquired as community property.
The monetary proceeds of the exploitation of a work of the mind or of the total or partial
assignment of the right of exploitation shall be subject to the ordinary law applicable to
matrimonial regimes only where they were acquired during the marriage; the same shall
apply to savings made in this respect.
Legislative provisions relating to the spouses' contributions to household costs shall apply
to the monetary proceeds referred to in the second paragraph of the present Article.
Section 3: Economic rights and limits on the exercise thereof
Article 31: The author of a work of the mind shall have the exclusive right to carry out or
authorize the following acts:
1 – the reproduction of his work;
2 – the public performance of his work;
3 – the translation, adaptation, arrangement or other transformations of his work;