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The author regularly depends on persons or entities, which support him with the commercialisation and exploitation of his works. The oldest and most important kind of exploitation is that the author leaves his work to a publishing house for publication, which, generally speaking, in return lets him participate in the proceeds of the sale of his work. While a regular licence can concern any defined use of a work, the publishing contract, the obligation and the entitlement is basically limited to the work’s reproduction and distribution.