4 questions to Frédéric Besson, deputy director of the CFC Business and Administration department.
What are the legal obligations with regard to copies of press articles in companies, communities, associations? Frédéric Besson: No one should be unaware that to be lawful, a reproduction of a protected work requires authorization and that in return a royalty must be paid. Also, all organizations have the obligation to subscribe an authorization license with the CFC or to have an agreement with the publisher concerned, when their employees, within the framework of their professional activities, make and distribute copies. newspaper articles or book pages. What are the types of licenses offered by the CFC? Frédéric Besson: You will understand, the organization does not buy articles but pays a royalty to have the right to lawfully reproduce articles. To do this, it has two types of licenses adapted to its needs. The first is the contract authorizing press panoramas. There, a professional makes available in a periodic and structured way print or web press articles or audiovisual ext...