Translation of "Transfer and assignment contract " (English → French) :

The following paragraphs shall be inserted in: If, 50 years after the phonogram was lawfully published, or failing such publication, 50 years after it was lawfully communicated to the public, the phonogram producer does not offer copies of the phonogram for sale in sufficient quantity or does not make it available to the public, by wire or wireless means, in such a way that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them, the performer may terminate the contract whereby he has transferred or assigned his rights in the fixation of his performance to a phonogram producer (hereinafter, a 'contract on tr ...[+++]ansfer or assignment').

1. A contract, concluded before [insert date before which Member States are to transpose the amending directive, as mentioned in Article 2 below], whereby a performer has transferred or assigned his rights other than to a collecting society in the fixation of his performance to a phonogram producer (hereinafter: a "contract of transfer or assignment"), shall be deemed not to produce any effect beyond the moment at which, by virtue of Article 3 (1) in t ...[+++]heir version before amendment by Directive [// insert: Nr. of this amending directive], the performer would be no longer protected in regard of, respectively, the fixation of the performance.

1. In the absence of clear indications to the contrary, a contract, concluded before [insert date before which Member States are to transpose the amending directive, as mentioned in Article 2 below], whereby a performer has transferred or assigned his rights in the fixation of his performance to a phonogram producer (hereinafter: a "contract on transfer or assignment"), shall be deemed to continue to produce its effects beyond the ...[+++]moment at which, by virtue of Article 3 (1) and (2) in their version before amendment by Directive [// insert: Nr. of this amending directive], the performer and the phonogram producer would be no longer protected in regard of, respectively, the fixation of the performance and the phonogram.

(15) For the sake of legal certainty it should be provided that in the absence of clear indications to the contrary in the contract , a contractual transfer or assignment of rights in the fixation of the performance concluded before the date by which Member States are to adopt measures implementing this Directive shall continue to produce its effects for the extended term.

1. In the absence of clear indications to the contrary, a contract, concluded before [insert date before which Member States are to transpose the amending directive, as mentioned in Article 2 below], whereby a performer has transferred or assigned his rights in the fixation of his performance to a phonogram producer (hereinafter: a "contract on transfer or assignment"), shall be deemed to continue to produce its effects beyond the ...[+++]moment at which, by virtue of Article 3 (1) and (2) in their version before amendment by Directive [// insert: Nr. of this amending directive], the performer and the phonogram producer would be no longer protected in regard of, respectively, the fixation of the performance and the phonogram.

The "assignment contract" or "transfer contract" is then made between the assignor, in our example the parts supplier, and the assignee, here the bank.