2 Amendments of Bernadette VERGNAUD related to 2012/0180(COD)
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Notwithstanding the first subparagraph, Member States may adopt specific provisions for the management of rights in the audiovisual field, authorising collecting societies to ask rightholders to entrust them with the collective management of rights for all modes of exploitation of the work.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. Rightholders shall have the right to terminate the authorisation to manage rights, categories of rights or types of works and other subject matter granted to a collecting society or to withdraw from a collecting society any of the rights or categories of rights or types of works and other subject matter of their choice, for the Member States of their choice, upon serving reasonable notice not exceeding six months. The collecting society may decide that such termination or withdrawal will take effect only at the middle and at the end of the financial year, whichever is sooner after the expiry of the notice perioend of a period not exceeding two years from the date on which the author joined.