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five years; the interruption of performances for two consecutive years shall automatically terminate the contract. Unless exclusive rights are expressly stipulated, the performance contract shall not confer on the entertainment promoter any exploitation monopoly. The entertainment promoter may not transfer the benefit of his contract without formal consent given in writing by the author or his representative. The entertainment promoter shall be required to notify the author or his representatives of the exact program of public performances and furnish them with a certified statement of receipts. He shall pay the author or his representatives at the agreed times the amount of royalties stipulated. The entertainment promoter shall ensure that public performance takes place under technical conditions that guarantee respect for the author’s intellectual and moral rights. Article 58: Unless otherwise agreed: - authorization to telecast a work by electromagnetic waves shall not include the cablecasting of such telecasts, unless made simultaneously and in full by the organization granted the authorization and without extension of the contractually stipulated geographical area; - authorization to telecast a work shall not constitute authorization to communicate the telecast of the work in a place to which the public has access; - authorization to telecast a work by electromagnetic waves shall not include its transmission towards a satellite enabling the work to be received through other organizations unless the authors or their successors in title have contractually authorized these organizations to communicate the work to the public; if so, the broadcasting organization shall be exempted from paying any royalties. Section V - Audiovisual production contracts Article 59: Contracts binding the producer and the authors of an audiovisual work, other than the author of a musical composition with or without words, shall imply, unless otherwise stipulated and notwithstanding the rights afforded to the author, the assignment to the producer of the exclusive exploitation rights in the audiovisual work. Audiovisual production contracts shall not imply the assignment to the producer of the graphic and theatrical rights in the work. Such contracts shall lay down the list of elements which served to produce the work and are to be stored, as well as the conditions of this storage. Unless agreed otherwise, each of the authors of an audiovisual work may freely dispose of the part of the work that constitutes his personal contribution for the purpose of exploiting it in a different field if this does not prejudice the exploitation of the joint work. Article 60: Remuneration shall be payable to the authors for each mode of exploitation.

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