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Articles L. 134-1 to L. 134-9 of the Intellectual Property Code, as drafted following those two laws, read as follows: ‘Article L. 134-1 For the purposes of this Chapter, an out-of-print book means a book published in France before 1 January 2001 which is no longer commercially distributed by a publisher and is not currently published in print or in a digital format. Article L. 134-2 A public database indexing out-of-print books shall be created and made openly available, free of charge, through an online, public communication service. The Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) shall be responsible for implementing and updating it and for recording the information provided for in Articles L. 134-4, L. 134-5 and L. 134-6. … Article L. 134-3 I. When a book has been registered in the database referred to in Article L. 134-2 for more than six months, the right to authorise its reproduction and performance in digital format shall be exercised by a collecting society governed by Title II of Book III of this Part and approved for that purpose by the Minister responsible for culture. With the exception of the case provided for in the third subparagraph of Article L. 134-5, the reproduction and performance of the book in digital format shall be authorised, in return for remuneration, on a non‑exclusive basis and for a renewable period of five years. II. Approved societies shall have standing to bring legal proceedings with a view to protecting the rights that they administer. III. The approval provided for in I shall be issued having regard to: … 2° equal representation of authors and publishers among the members and within the executive bodies; … 5° the fairness of the rules governing the distribution of collected income among successors in title, whether or not they are parties to the publishing contract. The amount of the sums received by the author or authors of the book may not be less than the amount of the sums received by the publisher; 6° the evidentiary measures which the society intends to apply in order to identify and locate rightholders, for the purposes of distributing the collected income; … Article L. 134-4 I. The author of an out-of-print book or a publisher with the right to reproduce printed copies of that book may oppose the exercise by an approved collecting society of the right of authorisation referred to in the first subparagraph of Article L. 134-3(I). Notification of that opposition shall be submitted in writing to the body referred to in the first subparagraph of Article L. 134-2 no later than six months after the book in question has been registered in the database referred to in the same subparagraph. … Article L. 134-5 If, upon expiration of the period laid down in Article L. 134-4(I), the author or publisher has not given notice of opposition, the collecting society shall offer authorisation to reproduce and perform an out-of-print book in digital format to the publisher having the right to reproduce that book in print. … The exploitation authorisation referred to in the first subparagraph shall be issued by the collecting society on an exclusive basis for a 10-year period which is tacitly renewable. … If the offer referred to in the first subparagraph is not accepted …, the reproduction and performance of the book in digital format shall be authorised by the collecting society as provided for in the second subparagraph of Article L. 134-3(I). … Article L. 134-6 The author and publisher having the right of reproduction in print of an out-of-print book shall at any time jointly notify the collecting society referred to in Article L. 134-3 of their decision to withdraw the latter’s right to authorise the reproduction and performance of that book in digital format. The author of an out-of-print book may decide at any time to withdraw from the collecting society referred to in Article L. 134-3 the right to authorise the reproduction and performance of a book in digital format if he provides evidence that he alone holds the rights laid down in L. 134-3. He shall notify it of his decision. … Article L. 134-7 The detailed rules for the application of this Chapter, in particular the arrangements for access to the database provided for in Article L. 134-2, the nature and format of the data collected and the most appropriate publicity measures to ensure that successors in title are as well informed as possible, the conditions for issuing and withdrawing the approval of collecting societies provided for in Article L. 134-3, shall be laid down in a decree of the Conseil d’État (Council of State). Article L. 134-9 By derogation from the provisions in the first three subparagraphs of Article L. 321-9, income collected through the exploitation of out-of-print books which it has not been possible to distribute because the recipients could not be identified or located before expiry of the period provided for in the last subparagraph of L. 321-1 shall be used by the approved societies referred to in Article L. 134-3 for initiatives to support creative activities, initiatives to develop writers and initiatives by libraries to promote reading amongst the public. …’