translate English to French: Precisely, it provided that: Where any person has, before the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, taken any action whereby he has incurred any expenditure or liability in connection with the reproduction or performance of any work in a manner which at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with the view to the reproduction or performance would, but for the passing of this Act, have been lawful, nothing in this section shall diminish or prejudice any rights or interests arising from or in connection with such action which are subsisting and valuable at the said date, unless the person who by virtue of this section becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agre es to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration.
Cet article prévoyait que Where any person has, before the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, taken any action whereby he has incurred any expenditure or liability in connection with the reproduction or performance of any work in a manner which at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with the view to the reproduction or performance would, but for the passing of this Act, have been lawful, nothing in this section shall diminish or prejudice any rights or interests arising from or in connection with such action which are subsisting and valuable at the said date, unless the person who by virtue of this section becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agre es to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration.