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The contract shall specify a list of the elements used in the production of the work that is
conserved and the procedures for conservation.
Article 76: Remuneration shall be payable to the authors for each mode of exploitation.
Subject to the provisions of Article 49, where the public pays a price to receive the
communication of a specified and identifiable audiovisual work, the remuneration shall
be proportional to such price, taking into account any decreasing rates granted by the
distributor to the operator, and shall be paid to the authors by the producer.
Article 77: The author shall guarantee the producer the undisturbed exercise of the rights
assigned.
Article 78: The producer shall be required to ensure that the audiovisual work is
exploited in accordance with the practice within the profession.
Article 79: At least once a year, the producer shall provide the author and the joint
authors with a statement of the revenue from the exploitation of the work for each mode
of exploitation.
At their request, he shall supply them with all evidence necessary to establish the
accuracy of the accounts, in particular a copy of the contracts under which he assigns to
third parties all or some of the rights which he enjoys.
Article 80: Unless otherwise agreed, each of the authors of an audiovisual work may
freely dispose of the part of the work that constitutes his personal contribution with a
view to exploiting it in a different genre, where such exploitation is without prejudice to
the exploitation of the joint work.
Article 81: Judicial administration proceedings in respect of the producer shall not entail
the termination of the audiovisual production contract.
Where the producer or exploiter of the work is involved in proceedings, the
administrator, the receiver or any person involved in the business operations during
bankruptcy or courtordered liquidation shall be bound by all the producer's obligations,
in particular with regard to the joint authors.
In the event of assignment of all or part of the business, or liquidation, the administrator,
the debtor or the liquidator, as the case may be, shall be required to establish a separate
lot for each audiovisual work that may be assigned or auctioned. He shall be obliged to
notify each of the authors and coproducers of the work by registered letter one month
before any decision on assignment or sale by auction, on pain of invalidity. The
purchaser shall likewise be bound by the obligations of the seller.