SECTION 48

The copyright holder may grant the publisher preferential rights for the publication of his future works provided they relate to a specified genre. However, this right shall, for each genre, be limited to five new works. 49.—(1) The following shall not constitute a publishing contract: (a) the “author-financed” contract whereby the copyright holder pays the publisher an agreed sum to make a specified number of copies of the work under the form and following the modes of expression defined in the contract, and to ensure their publication and distribution. This contract shall constitute a hiring of the work; (b) the “fifty-fifty” contract whereby the copyright holder assigns a publisher to make at his own cost a specified number of copies of the work in the form and following the modes of expression defined in the contract, and to ensure their publication and distribution in return for a mutually contracted undertaking to share proportionally the profits and losses occurring therefrom. This contract shall be a partnership. (2) The contracts referred to in subsection (1) above shall be deemed concluded only after the approval of the competent collective management body. Chapter IV Audiovisual Production Contract