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the work created by its employee, and the producer of an audiovisual work himself or
herself is deemed to be an assignee. For the same reason, the concept of collective
management – which, within a private law framework, must meet the dual challenges of
effectiveness and transparency – has been updated.
Lastly, it has been deemed necessary, for the sake of consistency, to devote a separate
part – part four – to the protection of folklore and the domaine public payant, which,
from a legal point of view, are issues on the margins of copyright but which to date have
been considered sufficiently closely connected to the subject of copyright to be dealt with
in the same framework.
Such is the structure of the draft law submitted for your approval.