France

Overview

‘Other photographs’ related rights

No

Overview

Article 14 has not been transposed, since unoriginal reproductions were not protected under the existing French copyright law.

Scope

 

Retroactivity

 

Statutory Law

Source language

English

Provision on copyright 

Code de la propriété intellectuelle - Légifrance  

 

Revised provision on copyright 

 

 

Comments / analysis

France did not make any changes to the law, given its stance that only original reproductions would be protected. This has the drawback of leaving a lot of uncertainty as to whether institutions can claim copyright over reproductions of public domain work, since the law does not explicitly forbids that.

Provision on related rights for “other photographs”

 

 

Revised provision on related rights for “other photographs” 

 

 

Comments / analysis

 

Takeaways

Limitations for CHIs

Article L 621-42 of Code du Patrimoine

Reflections

 

Sources

Open GLAM Examples