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If the business capital has been transferred at the request of the receiver or the party
responsible for liquidation, subject to the terms of the Code of Commerce, the acquirer shall
be subrogated to the assignor.
If, within a period of one year from the date of the insolvency judgment, the venture has
not been continued and the business capital has not been transferred, the author may
request the contract to be terminated.
The publishing contract shall be automatically terminated when, owing to a failure to sell or
for any other reason, the publisher destroys all copies.
The contract may be terminated by the author independently of the cases provided for
by the common law when, on a formal demand granting him a suitable deadline, the
publisher has not published the work or, where a print run has been sold out, has not
republished the work.
An edition shall be considered to have been sold out if two requests for delivery of copies
addressed to the publisher have not been satisfied within three months.
If the work is incomplete at the time of the author’s death, the contract shall be settled as
regards the incomplete part of the work, except in the case of agreement between the
publisher and the author’s successors in title.
PART II
RIGHTS OF PERFORMERS, PRODUCERS OF PHONOGRAMS
AND BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS (RELATED RIGHTS)
CHAPTER I
Rights of Authorization
Rights of Authorization of Performers
Article 50
Subject to the provisions of Article 54 to 56, the performer shall have the exclusive
right to carry out or authorize the following acts:
(a) the broadcast of his performance, apart from when the broadcast is made from a fixation
of the performance other than a fixation made under Article 55 or when a rebroadcast is
made, as authorized by the broadcasting organization which first shows the performance;
(b) the communication to the public of his performance, apart from when this communication
is made from a broadcast of the performance;
(c) the performance which has not yet been fixed;
(d) the reproduction of a fixation of his performance in any way or form whatsoever, whether
permanent or temporary, including temporary storage in electronic form;
(e) the first distribution to the public of a fixation of his performance, through sale or
any other transfer of ownership;
(f) the public hiring or loan of his performance;
(g) the public provision, by wire(less) means, of his performance fixed on a phonogram, so
that access is provided for all persons from the place and at the time of their individual
choosing;
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