## II.13.3. Exclusive rights 

The Union acquires the following exclusive rights: 

(a) reproduction: the right to authorise or prohibit direct or indirect, temporary or permanent reproduction of the results  by any means (mechanical, digital or other) and in any form, in whole or in part; 

(b) communication to the public: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any display, performance or communication to the public, by wire or wireless means, including the making available to the public of the results  in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place and at a time individually chosen by them; this right also includes the communication and broadcasting by cable or by satellite; 

(c) distribution: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any form of distribution of results or copies of the results  to the public, by sale or otherwise; 

(d) rental: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit rental or lending of the results or of copies of the results ; 

(e) adaptation: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any modification of the results ; 

(f) translation: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any translation, adaptation, arrangement, creation of derivative works based on the results , and any other alteration of the results , subject to the respect of moral rights of authors, where applicable; 

(g) where the results  are or include a database: the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the extraction of all or a substantial part of the contents of the database to another medium by any means or in any form; and the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the re- utilization of all or a substantial part of the contents of the database by the distribution of copies, by renting, by on-line or other forms of transmission; 

(h) where the results  are or include a patentable subject-matter: the right to register them as a patent and to further exploit such patent to the fullest extent; 

(i) where the results are or include logos or subject-matter which could be registered as a trademark: the right to register such logo or subject-matter as a trademark and to further exploit and use it; 

(j) where the results are or include know-how: the right to use such know-how as is necessary to make use of the results  to the full extent provided for by this FWC, and the right to make it available to contractors or subcontractors acting on behalf of the contracting authority, subject to their signing of adequate confidentiality undertakings where necessary; 

(k) where the results  are documents: 

(i) the right to authorise the reuse of the documents in conformity with the Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (2011/833/EU), to the extent it is applicable and the documents fall within its scope and are not excluded by any of its provisions; for the sake of this provision, ‘reuse’ and ‘document’ have the meaning given to it by this Decision; 

(ii) the right to store and archive the results in line with the document management rules applicable to the contracting authority, including digitisation or converting the format for preservation or new use purposes; 

(l) where the results are or incorporate software, including source code, object code and, where relevant, documentation, preparatory materials and manuals, in addition to the other rights mentioned in this Article: 

