French Intellectual Property Code
In forceDoes not constitute a publishing contract, within the meaning of article L. 132-1, the so-called half-account contract.
With this type of contract, the author or his successors in title commission a publisher to produce, at the publisher's expense and in number, copies of the work or to produce it or have it produced in digital form, in the form and according to the modes of expression determined in the contract, and to ensure its publication and distribution, in return for a reciprocal undertaking to share the profits and losses of exploitation, in the proportion provided for.
This contract constitutes a joint venture. It is governed, subject to the provisions of articles 1871 et seq. of the Civil Code, by agreement and usage.
