14 Article 70 – Save as otherwise provided: 1) Authorization for the terrestrial broadcast of a work does not include distribution of this broadcast by cable, unless it is done simultaneously and fully by the body that has received this authorization and without any extension of the geographical area stipulated in the contract. 2) Authorization to broadcast a work is not the equivalent of authorization to communicate the broadcast of this work in a place accessible to the public. 3) Authorization for the terrestrial broadcast of a work does not include its broadcast to a satellite allowing this work to be received through the intermediary of third-party bodies, unless the authors or their successors in title have contractually authorized these bodies to communicate the work to the public; in this case, the broadcasting body shall be exempt from paying any remuneration. 4) The authorization to broadcast does not imply authorization to record the broadcast work using instruments that record sound and images. In exceptional cases, however, on account of the national interest they represent or their documentary nature, certain recordings may be authorized. The procedures for making these recordings and using them shall be laid down by the parties or, where there is no agreement, by a decision signed by the Minister for Culture and Communication. These recordings may be stored in the official archives. Article 71 – An impresario is obliged to declare to the author or his representatives the exact programme of public presentations or performances and to provide them with documentary evidence of his takings therefrom. He must pay the amount of the royalties stipulated on the due dates specified, directly to the author or his representatives. Municipalities, however, for local public fairs, and community education associations approved by the Minister for Education, for sessions organized by them in the context of their work, must enjoy a reduction of these royalties. Article 72 – An impresario must ensure that the public presentation or performance takes place in technical conditions that ensure respect for the intellectual and moral rights of the author. SECTION II Publishing contract Article 73 – A publishing contract is an agreement whereby the author of an intellectual work or his successors in title assign on specified conditions to a person known as the publisher the right to make or have made multiple copies of the work, on condition that he publishes and distributes them. Article 74 – A contract for publication at the author’s expense does not constitute a publishing contract within the meaning of Article 73. Under this kind of agreement, the author or his successors in title pay the publisher agreed remuneration, on condition that the latter makes multiple copies of the work in accordance with the modes of expression specified in the contract, and publishes and distributes them. This type of agreement constitutes a work contract governed by convention, custom and the provisions of Articles 1787 ff. of the Civil Code.

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