e24702_SN004 Translated from French 31 Culture may gather, from documents or on site, the information referred to in the present Article. Title III. – Implementation of rights Chapter I. – Technological protection and information measures Article 125. Technological protection measures. – 1. Owners of copyright and neighboring rights may, in the exercise of their rights, use technological measures with a view to preventing or limiting acts, in respect of their works, performances, phonograms, videograms or programs, which they have not authorized and which are not permitted by law. 2. Circumvention of the technological measures referred to in the previous paragraph shall be punishable by the criminal penalties provided for in Article 145. Article 126. Rights management information. – 1. Electronic rights management information relating to a work, performance, phonogram, videogram or program shall be protected in the cases provided for in the present Article, where an item of information, number or code is attached to the reproduction or appears in connection with the communication to the public of the work, performance, phonogram, videogram or program in question. 2. "Electronic information" means any information provided by a rights owner that identifies a work, performance, phonogram, videogram, program or rights owner, any information about the terms and conditions of use of a work, performance, phonogram, videogram or program, and any number or code that represents all or part of such information. 3. The following acts shall be unlawful where they are carried out without the authorization of the owner of the copyright or neighboring right in question, and in the knowledge or with reasonable grounds to believe that they will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement of copyright or of a neighboring right: (a) the removal or alteration of any item of electronic information; (b) the distribution, import for distribution or communication to the public in any form of a work, performance, phonogram, videogram or program, where an item of electronic information has been removed or altered. 4. Where the perpetrator of one of the acts listed in paragraph 3 knows that the act will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement of copyright or of a neighboring right, he shall incur the criminal penalties provided for in Article 145. Chapter II. – Procedure Section I. – General rules Article 127. Capacity to act. – 1. Any owner of copyright or of a neighboring right shall have capacity to take legal action in the event of a violation of his rights. 2. Collective management societies shall have capacity to take legal action pursuant to Article 110.5.