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RIDA 256 | 04-2018

Doctrine

Contracts

CARON, Christophe

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Sixty years ago, in its special issue devoted entirely to the law of 11 March 1957, RIDA published Roger FERNAY’s article entitled “Transfer and Publication Contract”.1 This author was the only non-jurist to write an article in the special issue, because he was an author in the noble sense of the term. He was inter alia a lyricist. For example, film buffs will remember the fine lyrics of the waltz that forms the leitmotiv of Abel Gance’s Paradis perdu. However, Roger FERNAY was well acquainted with the law on authors’ rights through his day-to-day work as director of the national union of authors and composers (SNAC) and by studying it in various articles published in RIDA.Mirroring Roger FERNAY’s abovementioned article, our intention therefore is to focus, sixty years later, on the fate of the contract law provisions of the law of 11 March 1957. What has become of them? Have they been changed? Has a legal revolution swept away the grand principles of the law of 1957?