licitant

20:57 May 15, 2019 

"Les licences collectives étendues présentent l’utilité appréciable de liciter une utilisation..." Livre blanc de l'UER sur le droit d'auteur (2010) (p.57).

Trans: "The grant of collective licenses offer the considerable benefit of authorizing a use..." (of a copyrighted asset).

20:50 May 15, 2019 

La licitation is discussed with reference to music in some French legal texts. I've seen it in 2 contexts:

1. Multiple co-owners of a musical composition; some want to "l'exploiter" while others don't; can "licitation" be ordered by a court and if so under what circumstances?

2. The French equivalent of the fair use doctrine can "liciter" the exploitation of a song, i.e. let you use it without permission from or payment to the ayants-droits (see slide 11 in this presentation: https://docplayer.fr/73088176-2017-en-paca-comment-utiliser-...

Meaning #1 doesn't make sense in this context, since it's "musiciens licitants," not a court ordering licitation. Meaning #2 may be an anglicism (similarity to "licensing"); in any case, that's what it means -- you're allowed to use it.

So "authorising" works: "agreements with the musicians authorising the exploitation of the Recordings" makes sense. Those musicians have rights ab initio under copyright law (FR & US), so their authorisation/permission is needed in order for the producer to sign a contract licensing the recordings to a record company (or whoever).

15:28 May 15, 2019 

Thanks for the input, but I'm sticking with my "made-up word" theory. I'm going to ask a very literate native speaker.

In my opinion the situation is this: the musicians (possibly session musicians) are signing away their rights in return for payment.

15:15 May 15, 2019 

In my opinion the question is: are the musicians auctioning (out) their rights, or they are bidding for rights?